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yyyy-mm-dd for the win indeed, if only for being naively sortable.

Yyyy-mm-dd is not used in real life because it puts the (in most contexts) least useful information first.

ISO 8601 also allows --mm-dd.

I use it all the time.

FYI: this is the common way to write dates in Sweden.

At least for the next 7979 years.