• EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      2013-02-27 is also unambiguous.

      Hey what’s today’s date?

      It’s 2025 -

      No like the DAY?

      Yeah, it’s 2025, 02 -

      Not the month, the day - What’s today’s actual date?

      Like I was saying, if you’d let me finish, “2025 - 02 - 27”

      I’m mostly joking, but when it comes to info about dates, I think the most evctive format it one that organizes the information within a heirachy that provides follow up answers.

      Formatting dates as day / month / year does just that. Provides the day it is, followed by the month and year as that is the order that information is usually needed in.

      I find providing the year first (or month) is much more ambiguous as neither are the day the actual date falls on.