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.

The level of short sightedness in this pursuit is laughable, even if it’s coming from corporate.

You pirated a song?

Well then, we’re going to cut off your internet so that we can never effectively market anything we make to you ever again.

We’ll gladly lose out on all the revenue you normally spend on corporate movies, tech, and content because we’d rather hyper fixate on the pennies of lost revenue that mp3 cost us, than ever worry about the macro economic conditions of the real people it comes from.

Fucking LOL.