Current Events > Both sides really are just as bad though

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In the US, the date format is listed as MM-DD-YYYY. Frankly, there's no real logical basis behind this format. Month is larger than Day, but Year is larger than both, yet we start out right in the middle. The only real advantage this format provides is when writing out the month (e.g. Dec 14 2021 looks better than 14 Dec 2021 or 2021 Dec 14)

Now looking at Europe, their format of DD-MM-YYYY might to the untrained eye seem preferable, but it is not. The most significant unit should always be listed first, and since the Year field is often truncated from dates, we commonly see disasters like DD-MM being used.

Thus, this brings us to the superior calendar date format of YYYY-MM-DD. It is nicely formatted from most significant to least (as all things really should be), there's no ambiguity present, and it all fits nicely for organizing documents by date. ISO 8601 really is the only valid standard for listing dates, and programmers have good reason for sticking to it.