While date formats are common issues address by designers and
developers every day. However, date formats are a universal
topic that plague people everywhere. Here, I will explore common
date formats, when they are used, and why there isn’t
necessarily a best one to choose from. Month-Day-Year vs Day-
Month-Year The majority of the world formats written dates in a
manner that is actually logical: day-month-year. This pattern
would be considered logical because day is less than month is
less than People in the United States, however, decided to do
things differently and go with month-day-year. This pattern is
not as logical, but reflects more accurately how people speak
the date, as in “December 25, 2011.” In an attempt to
standardize date formats, ISO 8601 was released by the
International Organization for Standardization way back in 1988.
ISO 8601 was designed for data elements, making it important for
website designers and application developers. It never caught on
outside of technology fields, but that is p