BG> Perhaps, but I've never seen YYYY-MM-DD used anywhere.  Not at all.

The US military use it quite a bit.

BO> It's reasonably common in stuff which is designed to be used
BO> all over the place.  One of the nicer side-effects is that
BO> it's really easy to sort dates when they're written that way..

AC> Can you elaborate on the 'sorting' bit a little more?
AC> (eg. how does it make it any easier to sort dates in the
AC> format YYYY-MM-DD than sorting dates in the format DD-MM-YYYY ?)

Think about a line starting with that date. You can sort a
file of those with even a DOS SORT and no specification at all.

Basically a normal alphabetical sort on the whole date gets the order right.

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