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Originally Posted by Turtle91
As I mentioned earlier, any decent software would be able to natively interpret the MMM or MMMM into a numerical value and perform proper sorting.
Here is an example - 2nd column is the first column sorted.
Regardless, as Tex' link shows, there are multiple methods throughout the world. Even if there is an ISO "standard", the world isn't following it.
03 Feb 2021 leaves no confusion for anyone... that has a rudimentary acquaintance with the Gregorian calendar... which is used in most the world.
Just my .02
edit: I'm not actually trying to convince anyone to change to my preferred format. I just prefer that format (we were talking about preferences)...I've used it for the last @$*! years and have never had anyone question which day I meant. That only started when people tried to change to DMY or YMD or, when they get it wrong YDM.... |
The problem is the rest of the world doesn't speak English so the month names are not the same as ours. The rest of the world put year first much earlier that the US did. Possibly it was always that way when they adopted the numerals.
Dale