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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Dates should be written as May 05, 2021. Then there will not be any misunderstanding.
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Only the USA in the Entire World uses mm-dd-yy or mm-dd-yyyy. Spelling the month doesn't work. What date format is expiry on a USA Credit card?
All of the rest of the world uses dd-mm-yy, or yyyy, but the ISO is yyyy-mm-dd which sorts properly and is the same ordering as every other non-decimal quantity, such as tons stones pounds ounces. Or hours minutes seconds.
Even most countries without roman-latin alphabets now use arabic-indian digits, so the ISO numeric format OR the non USA numeric format works, May doesn't work.
Though if all Gregorian dates had 10,000 added to be Holocene Era, then we would have no AD / BC issues and maybe Moslems, Chinese and Jews wouldn't feel a western version of a Christian Calendar was being foisted on them. There also the problem of English History. England was one of the last places to change from the Julian to Gregorian.
The Julian calendar, proposed by Julius Caesar, took effect in 45 BC and lasted till 1582 when Pope Gregory authorised the current system. John Dee advised Queen Elizabeth I to adopt it but her privy council thought it too Papish.
England and Sweden (and places ruled by them) were two last users of the Julian Calendar: In the British Empire (including the American colonies), Wednesday 2 September 1752 was followed by Thursday 14 September 1752. For 12 years Sweden used a modified Julian calendar and adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1753.
Use the ISO format. No confusion anywhere.