YYYY-MM-DD only makes sense for tracking things over a period of years, where the actual date is less important than the general year. DD-MM-YYYY is the superior method, because you can leave out the latter one or two sections and still be understood based on context (if I say let's go shopping on the 15th, and today is the 13th, then obviously I mean the 15th of this month). MM-DD-YYYY has less practical value
For casual conversation or very temporary notes, that's fine. But most things written nowadays will matter again in or after 12 months. For documents, I have spent untold days of my time looking through documents labelled 'Blah blah January 4th' only to find out they were LAST YEAR'S documents. I beg of all to give in to sweet sweet ISO 8601.
YYYY-MM-DD only makes sense for tracking things over a period of years, where the actual date is less important than the general year. DD-MM-YYYY is the superior method, because you can leave out the latter one or two sections and still be understood based on context (if I say let's go shopping on the 15th, and today is the 13th, then obviously I mean the 15th of this month). MM-DD-YYYY has less practical value
For casual conversation or very temporary notes, that's fine. But most things written nowadays will matter again in or after 12 months. For documents, I have spent untold days of my time looking through documents labelled 'Blah blah January 4th' only to find out they were LAST YEAR'S documents. I beg of all to give in to sweet sweet ISO 8601.
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