"Stephen Osborn" wrote in message
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Michael Hoffman wrote:
k wrote:

I use DD MMM which also cannot be misinterpreted.


Unless you speak a language where the months have different names.
Then you will just be extremely confused.

Untrue. Most people who are likely to be in this position (e.g. using the
Internet, working for an international company) speak some form of English
to some extent and so will have some familiarity with English month names.

Also, with no knowledge of the language involved it is inherent that 01xyz
is in DDMMM format and so I can try and find out what xyz is in my
language. 0102 has no no inherent format.

Whereas YYYY MM DD is very easily worked out by people who use any language
and the western calender.