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by riffic 1073 days ago
As an aside, wtf kind of date convention or formatting is 8/01/2023 and is it really August already? Is there some sort of an issue preventing people from wrapping their minds around ISO 8601?

https://xkcd.com/1179/

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YYYYMMDD makes the most sense, but DDMMYYYY is second best because it arranges the parts in a logical order, least to most significant. The only nonsensical ordering is MMDDYYYY.
> MMDDYYYY

People who use this notation (and its derivatives) are committing crimes against humanity.

It's the normal format for the majority of the world.
Yo, what can be more normal than a deliberately designed and unambiguous international standard? Since we're "hackers" here we can also look at the relevant RFC (and please read the initials as "request for compliance"):

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3339