I totally prefer this date format too when I need to be clear and communicate internationally (which is most of the time).
Consider this though: It's not an inherently unambiguous and language agnostic format. It just so happens that there is no country that would write the above date as 2022-11-03. If there was, we'd have the same issue again.
it most importantly sorts properly when used at the front of a filename, and it's surprisingly easy to read; and in context I'm mostly looking at the month-date which can be picked off the end, "march 11" which is how we say dates in English anyway
time of day can be appended without messing with the collation (usually i put a space)
So I agree with your point that the way dates are said varies. But your example isn't very good. That's just the name of the holiday, and should not be used to infer anything else.
I understand the point entirely. I said I agree with it.
But at the same time, "Fourth of July" should not be used to infer anything about how Americans say dates. It doesn't help prove that both orders are used for dates.
In the real world, some people say day-month and some say month-day, and the holiday is called "Fourth of July". In a counterfactual world where everyone switched to month-day, the holiday would still be called "Fourth of July". So you can't use "Fourth of July" to demonstrate what people actually use for dates.
i just looked up, the "American" confusion: we got our date order from the English long ago. Then the English changed their date order. That must have been most confusing
And month/day is not as confusing as day/month (widely used in Europe) since it doesn't correspond to how we say dates.
moving the year first then using the American MM/DD is the least confusing way to do it
https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601