YYYY-MM-DD: The Best Way to Write Dates

[Soren Bjornstad]

Most of us folks in the United States are familiar with the MM-DD-YY short date system (e.g., 6/28/13 for June 28, 2013). It’s familiar, but if you stop to think about it, it really doesn’t make very much sense. The digits of least significance are in the middle, not at the beginning or at the end. The only reason the order makes any sense at all is that it matches the way we say dates (May 23, 2013).

In this article, I will explain the reasons the short date formats most people use are problematic, then introduce the alternative, YYYY-MM-DD format, and explain how it solves the problems of the other formats.

Read on at <http://thetechnicalgeekery.com/?p=1008>.

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Soren "scorchgeek" Bjornstad

http://sorenbjornstad.com