ISO 8601: a better date format
The <i>real</i> advantage is that Azure and AWS and every other US-centric cloud service insists on showing me that something happened on the 3/11/2021.<p>It's a wild guess to figure out if that is the 11th of March or the 3rd of November.<p>Unless there's also another date with a number higher than 12 in it, there is no way to tell. None. None whatsoever.<p>For US staff with US regional settings, it's always obvious which date is correct. That is the <i>one single case</i> where there is no confusion. This works as expected for just 4% of the world population, but it is those 4% of the world that get to decide the date format.<p>It's the most obnoxiously American attitude imaginable to ignore this issue because it doesn't affect them... only the <i>other 96% of the planet</i>.<p>/rant over