[williwu]

While you are at can you change the date format as well? DD/MM/YYYY instead of MM/DD/YYYY (US). It should go from small to big. The other way around makes my head hurts every time.

[bryanlarsen]

YYYY-MM-DD is a much better choice. It sorts like a number, and it's unambiguous in standard usage.

[Havoc]

>YYYY-MM-DD is a much better choice. It sorts like a number

Not sure I disagree. Sure the sorting by numbers is of interest to the HN crowd but has little value to anyone outside of IT.

In most cases I'm most interested in the "day" part so its convenient if thats first (which it is in 90% of the world).

[talideon]

It's the standard in Japan at least.

[marcosdumay]

The best part of YYYY-MM-DD is that almost nobody uses it, so it'll be easier to get everybody to support. I don't think we can standardize in either DD-MM-YYYY or MM-DD-YYYY.

[kourt]

NO! ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD). Just like all other numbers, the "ones" place is on the right.

The week dates are even more awesome, really: I use them whenever I can.