[sfgweilr4f]

Or they could use instead use CSVs. What could possibly go wrong?

[jeffrallen]

Everything is fine, as long as no Americans come and write 1,000 where obviously they should have written 1000 or 1'000. /s

[blitzar]

Or some american writes the date somewhere.

edit: /s we love you american colleagues,

[simonh]

Working with and for Americans is why I always use ISO year-month-day format.

[girvo]

That, and I like how they neatly sort.

[p_l]

I can confirm that, in a non-bank financial institution, date formats involved with Excel->CSV->XML->Certain (shit) magic application were considerable pain point :|

[int_19h]

Or those pesky Europeans writing 12,34 when they obviously meant 12.34!