It is the official standard in several East Asian countries—such as China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, and Mongolia—where it aligns with their traditional writing systems and administrative practices.
A few European nations like Hungary and Lithuania also apply this format in certain official contexts. Overall, its use remains limited globally, but it offers a straightforward and highly organized way to express dates.
randomtask on
Otherwise known as the least ambiguous way to represent a date. It’s frankly criminal that some put the *month* first, absolutely poisoning the potential for unambiguity for all of the countries that do the somewhat-sensible day/month/year.
scorp312 on
The Government of Canada recommends using this format when writing dates numerically as well, but there’s no binding legislation requiring its use.
Few-Interview-1996 on
I’m perfectly fine with that, though I use the reverse.
1to1Representation on
I use this method and put three digits of the year to differentiate it from other formats.
YYY-MM-DD
HeirophantGreen on
Here in Japan, many other formats follow this pattern of largest unit first and then working down to the smallest, like addresses, people’s position and title in a company, etc.
atomicsiren on
ISO 8601 FTW.
randomperson12179 on
In my opinion, this format combines the best of both DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY
zudzug on
Ahem. Canada does as well.
Huge_Ad5340 on
This is the proof! Asia is more advanced then the west
Barbicels on
It’s the only format that sorts properly!
AlwaysCurious1250 on
I use this format in naming computerfiles, in order to have them listed chronologically
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It is the official standard in several East Asian countries—such as China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, and Mongolia—where it aligns with their traditional writing systems and administrative practices.
A few European nations like Hungary and Lithuania also apply this format in certain official contexts. Overall, its use remains limited globally, but it offers a straightforward and highly organized way to express dates.
Otherwise known as the least ambiguous way to represent a date. It’s frankly criminal that some put the *month* first, absolutely poisoning the potential for unambiguity for all of the countries that do the somewhat-sensible day/month/year.
The Government of Canada recommends using this format when writing dates numerically as well, but there’s no binding legislation requiring its use.
I’m perfectly fine with that, though I use the reverse.
I use this method and put three digits of the year to differentiate it from other formats.
YYY-MM-DD
Here in Japan, many other formats follow this pattern of largest unit first and then working down to the smallest, like addresses, people’s position and title in a company, etc.
ISO 8601 FTW.
In my opinion, this format combines the best of both DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY
Ahem. Canada does as well.
This is the proof! Asia is more advanced then the west
It’s the only format that sorts properly!
I use this format in naming computerfiles, in order to have them listed chronologically