It's a Date!

[cpsings4him]

Poll The Really Super Important Date Formatting Poll of the Year Of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twelve

Comments

[saturnfall]

The US Federal Government uses YYYY-MM-DD, as does any good unix sysadmin. So do I.

[mofoburrell]

The burning question for sysadmins is, at what point do you switch to yyyyy-mm-dd (with a leading zero) to ensure everything still sorts ascii-fetically in the future? :P

[cpsings4him]

Now here's a forward thinking individual!

[saturnfall]

When we start using the new calendar based on the launch time of the first ship of the diaspora. Obviously.

[claidheamhmor]

I've done it like that for years, purely for sort reasons. Where I live, the common form is DD/MM/YYYY or DD-MM-YYYY.