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by mulmen 1009 days ago
> Perhaps while we're at it, we should propose a new system where the months come before the days, just to keep our dates in perfect lexicographic order.

No need. ISO 2014 was recommended in 1971 and issued in 1973.

If you have chosen any other textual representation of date and time for data interchange you are in a very literal sense doing it wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_2014