[WarOnPrivacy]

>>1-5-2024

>For the love of all that is holy, what is this date format.

Most commonly used in the US. 'Cause we gotta show it like we say it. I think.

[wccrawford]

With dashes? We almost always use slashes here in the US. The only time I see dashes is for ISO format, and that's year-first.

[WarOnPrivacy]

Sure. It was the dominant written style throughout the 20th cent and folks kept on with it.

[D13Fd]

Yes. It’s less common but looks unremarkable to me.

[tyingq]

I see mm/dd/yyyy much more often, though I did see mm-dd-yyyy or mm-dd-yy a fair amount in goverment and military work.

See https://eforms.state.gov/Forms/ds5507.PDF for example, page two. Though again, it's not as common as slashes.

[Izkata]

No, you have it confused with 1/5/2024. We don't use dashes with this order.

[MisterTea]

I've seen dashes. Much less common but I have seen it used and I live in NYC.

[bombcar]

People sometimes get used to dashes in dates when / is an illegal character in a filename.