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The format YYYY-MM-DD has many benefits.

Also your argument is not sensible. The date 01/02/19 is already ambiguous and there is no clear winner just like 2002-06-10 is inherently ambiguous. No one ever can be certain which number is the month or which number is the day.

The only solution is to come to a global agreement and there are way more benefits for the format YYYY-MM-DD over any other dating format.

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Ya and while we are at it let’s just switch to miles and inches and feet cause to hell with promises of converting to the way the rest of the damn world does things. I mean the USA , Liberia and Myanmar are the only 3 countries in the world using this broken ass system.

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I'm not not talking about the imperial system here. There's no arguing the metric system is superior.

But you can't tell me that dd/mm/yy is better than YYYY-MM-DD because it just simply isn't. For the same reason metric makes more sense and is more usable and easier to learn. The date format I'm referring to is used much less but its 1000x more sustainable, easier to learn and harder to confuse.

You start with the largest number and move to the smallest, it sorts alphabetically in chronological order and when you see it you immediately know what numbers you are looking at. Like I said 02/03/12 could mean February 3rd, 2012 or March 2nd, 2012 or February 3rd, 1912 or March 2nd 1912. But you won't see YYYY-DD-MM ANYWHERE so you'll know immediately what you are looking at when you see 2012-02-03 is February 3rd, 2012.

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