Good luck getting people to change the way they write dates, no matter how terrible it is.

I work at google and frequently collaborate with people from Germany, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and the US. I always use YYYY-MM-DD in docs and emails to make sure everyone understands. It's still somewhat common to see mixups between the Americans and everyone else around MM/DD and DD/MM though.

Well they are definitely American. Their reach is global, sure. That makes the rest of the world subject to their Americanness.

This date format works for just as much of the year as DD/MM/YYYY though, and is just as ambiguous as the other format is if you don't know who the author is.

It works for the entire year though.

I was very annoyed when I worked for a global company that used DD-Mon-YYYY, like 01-Apr-2020. Moaned and groaned about how they chose a non-standard format instead of an ISO standard.

Of course, I later found out that is a standard format, and I suppose it's easier on non-technical people even if it stinks as a computer guy. Egg on my face.

It is sort of weird that dates aren’t universally parsed user-side according to localization settings, here in year 2768.

Completely agree. yyyy-mm-dd works for sorting, reading and superseeding existing formats.

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