Plus slashes are more likely to be blocked by arbitrary character set validation, and fail. Dashes more clearly distinguish the segments and are more compatible

This is probably the best format and I would concede without question. Cheers!

I have (minor) beef with ISO 8601. It's very wishy washy about fractional seconds. It's like "eh, idc if you use a period or a comma to separate them"

I sign papers with customers from all over the world, and if I get to sign first and need to add a date, I invariably go for YYYY-MM-DD from ISO-8601. If they go first it's most often illegible to readers without any cultural context.

I agree. Plus, if you are naming files in your computer, using YYYY-MM-DD will keep them ordered chronologically by default.

MDY is just plain nuts, but has to be DMY for me, increasing length of time, left to right as that's the direction of reading (plus what I was taught!).

Ok that is a level of cursed I wasn't prepared for

hot take ☠️

Pure evil

I see you woke up and chose violence. Dueling pistols at dawn it is then

For me, it's actually much better for file name sorting - and just about everything else. It numerically orders items in a logical manner allowing for batch processing of large sets of data using wildcards or regex, but I understand that it may not fit everyone's usecase...which is why, it seems everyday, there's someone introducing a new date format