Displaying a date on a web page is so common that there should be an HTML tag for displaying a date in localised format.
Lets get rid of all date-time formats except the iso(YYY-MM-DD) one...
It is simple to think that this format would work but the people who are not familiar with this format will be completely lost with it. People who are not educated but somehow learnt to follow one format; ask them to learn a new format; it will be so complicated.
Sigh...
You're not even from the United States, so you should full well know how important standardisation is across country borders. There are literally only three countries that haven't adopted metric, zero that haven't adopted the standard 24 hour / 60 minute day, and only four that haven't adopted the Gregorian calendar[1].
So why is it so hard to accept the one consistent date format? Seriously? Why?
Tell you what: If you can tell me which day the following date represents, I'll give you USD 100. Seriously. I'm not even kidding.
03/04/05
(1) standard probabilities apply.
But seriously, yes. I am French and write the date as 2009-03-01 and get weird looks.
I work in a French company and some people seem to assume that it is fancy to use a US format for the dates. I refuse to read a document which did not have an obvious format.
Heck, even MAR/01/2020 could be acceptable but why? Why?
You haven't though because there isn't a locale setting in the browser.
If a user sees some random date, such as 3/4/xxxx, they have absolutely no way to distinguish if this is in their format or not.
If you're in the US, you might assume that this is in your backwards M/D/Y format, meaning it's April 3rd, and you'd be right much of the time.
However, if you're outside the US, then there are two indistinguishable possibilities:
It's a US server ignoring your time format, so this date represents April 3rd.
OR
It's a server correctly showing you a date in your preferred format, so it's actually the 4th of March.
At a glance, these aren't distinguishable. I easily click through 200-500 pages a day! I'm not going to sit down and try to work out which of those hundreds of pages a day, and thousands of pages a week are designed for humans, or just Americans.
If you're in the US, you might assume that this is in your backwards M/D/Y format, meaning it's April 3rd, and you'd be right much of the time.
If I, in the US, see 3/4/xxxx, its meaning is March 4th, definitely not April 3rd.
But the fact that you got your example wrong only proves your overall point that it's a mess!
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ti...