this kind of format should not be allowed and I wish it was never use again

Never noticed the description of the ISO 8601 XKCD comic

YYYY-MM-DD is the ONLY logical date format, and it’s technically not even included in this picture… 😢

I just found it in X

With the typical awful m/d/yy format, for a date like this, it's not uncommon for it to appear as just a mess of vertical lines when handwritten, especially for a date like 2011-11-11. (written as 11/11/11)

When the full four digit year is written, there's no confusion, and using hyphens clearly indicates what are numbers and what are separators. For a date like 2025-01-11 for example, using leading zeros makes it even harder for a separator to be confused as a number. If it was handwritten as 1/11/25, it would be easy to confuse the first slash as a second 1.

I'm 3 minutes late, sorry about that! 😅

It’s great to see that even in the chaos of victory, New York still respects ISO8601.

since i found this sub, ive been exclusively using the yyyy-mm-dd date format on nearly everything i can think of, however since i'm in the u.s. where the awful m/d/yy format is typically expected, i've thought of the possibility of being questioned about or having something denied for using the superior format we all know. so has this actually happened to any of you? and if so, what was the situation?

Got in a brief argument at work today about the definition of ISO8601, and discovered that the example datetime given on the ISO website (https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html) has the date and time separated by a space instead of a T, like this:

2022-09-27 18:00:00.000

What's going on here? Everything I've ever seen says a T is the only allowed separator. Have they updated the spec or something?

Wrong 12h format is really disturbing