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YYYY-MM-DD is the international standard more of us should use.

That casual readers know nothing of. I've always used 12-July-2024. It's the only non-ambiguous date format, that takes no consideration to understand.

In a perfect world everyone would agree, but regardless of my personal thoughts on ISO 8601 I think pointing to it as a silver bullet kind of misses the point.

Fundamentally storing and displaying dates serve two completely different purposes, but a format like 3/4/2023 is not suitable for either.

If you display it as 2024-12-03 then you can ignore locale date formatting.

> regardless of my personal thoughts on ISO 8601 I think pointing to it as a silver bullet kind of misses the point.

What is your point?

Is it to not use MM/DD/YYYY format and avoid any concrete recommendation for disambiguation?

Forgive my lack of acuity when missing your point. I may have been distracted by the dissonance between your evasive pedantry and your misuse of “ambivalent/ambivalence” when your semantic context calls for “ambiguous/ambiguity”.

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