I live in Italy and in here we all write the date like we're French...

What's up with these "locale" not working properly?

@nik123 uniform formatting, so that all dates have the same length. It's more of a visual quirk, really, but it makes logs much nicer to read through

YYYY-MM-DD only! Lets force everybody into ISO 8601.

I really hate these as seeing slahes, the first i read is MM/DD/YYYY used by US, but nooo. Ofc it's DD/MM/YYYY in your case because it would be too simple otherwise.

Noi italiani siamo un po' a cazzo, ammettilo. io tipo scrivo le date YYMMDD, però sui documenti ho sempre trovato DD/MM/YYYY

@qwwerty DD/MM/YYYY is the most correct form for talked language, as you can strip down the date removing less significant things from the right as with number. For example when I ask you the date I surely want to know the day number, maybe the month if I'm being retard but surely not the year. So you'll say "today is the DDth of MM of the year YYYY" or you can just say "today is the DDth of MM" or "today is the DDth" without ever reformatting the phrase, as you would have to do with US or ISO dates. But of course, for computer things ISO is the correct ones as it can provide a meaningful way for ordering by date

@qwwerty man, it's just you US people who use the MM/DD/YYYY format, everyone else in the world uses the standard DD/MM/YYYY as an human and YYYY-MM-DD if it's a developer/computer

@michezio @ZioCain

I'm not US.

Our country uses DD. MM. YYYY so the same natural language order as yours, but such a simple thing as using dots instead of slashes makes it easier to distinguish it from other formats.

Otherwise it's just a bloody guess work. You get an email about event with 04/05/201x in March. When's the event? In April or May? What customs is the sender using? Or although he's using DD/MM in his country, he sent the mail with MM/DD as he works for US company and is trying to comply with their customs?

That's why i'm saying YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable in online/written communication, because it's clear, prevents confusion and misunderstanding.

@qwwerty you are perfectly right, but that's because US dates should have never existed to begin with. It's completely out of any reasonable logic and without US format the other two could live together with no misunderstanding at all.