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by Etheryte 455 days ago
ISO 8601 is the standard date format in a number of European countries, but you do you.
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It is? I've only ever seen dd/mm/yyyy or dd/mm/yy as standard date format, with different separators instead of / depending on the country.
It's used in Sweden, at least.

Source: Me, having lived there most of my life.

Second source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Swed...

Thanks, I didn't know that.
It isn't used on any official forms and such that I'm aware of, at least outside technical circles, but people don't tend to have a problem with YMD ordered formats when they are used.
Sweden used YYYY-MM-DD before ISO 8601 was even written, and many other countries use it too.
I know at least some countries further East used it as a matter of course, but I wasn't aware any countries in/near Europe did.
YYYY-MM-DD+Z is pretty much the standard.