On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock.name> wrote:

On Saturday, 5 April 2014, at 12:21 pm, Jorge Timón wrote:
> I like both DD-MM-YYYY and YYYY-MM-DD. I just dislike MM-DD-YYYY and YYYY-DD-MM.

Your preferences reflect a cultural bias. The only entirely numeric date format that is unambiguous across all cultures is YYYY-MM-DD. (No culture uses YYYY-DD-MM, or at least the ISO seems to think so.)

Let's not waste any time shed-painting this. I'd like to finish this discussion at once:

https://xkcd.com/1179/

Wladimir