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by JoshTriplett 4344 days ago
> How about ISO standards? 2014/07/08 is completely unambiguous to everyone.

Agreed; however, ISO 8601 is actually YYYY-MM-DD, not YYYY/MM/DD. So, 2014-07-08.

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Ha good catch! Honestly slashes or dashes would be fine with me though :)
No no ... they wouldn't be fine with you, because no one else is using slashes, and dashes are something we should be encouraging everyone (but particularly our cousins across the pond) to embrace. :)