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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What dates are 12/10/2023 and 02/03/2023?
This is why the world should go computer date format 2023-07-04. Everyone would know what that date is and it would sort properly.
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Originally Posted by meeera
The sorting is nice, but in everyday life I just routinely use 4 Jul 2023. Clear to everybody.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
My personal date format would be 2023-Jan-31.
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JSWolf's post illustrates why, when normally writing dates, I go with either "1 Feb 2023" or "1 February 2023". It eliminates the ambiguity of other date formats. The only time I use a "MM-DD" for the date is if the current year is stated somewhere else on the form.
If I was going with an all-numbers format then I'd use YYYY-MM-DD. A long time ago I wrote a program in BASIC and used the "YYYY-MM-DD" to make sorting easy. Writing the date in "MM-DD-YYYY" format would necessitate a lot of program lines (with many subroutines) to get it to sort properly.