Comment by ReptileMan
2 days ago
The problem with the date format is that the US one absolutely totally insane. Whenever you use something ordered you have to choose ordering. For date US choose the absurd kind. Y-d-m should never have been used. Remove that and around 90% of the string based format problems disappear.
I live in Australia and we have d-m-Y, and even I would say just use ISO 8601. Just use the standard, please, pretty please with a cherry on top.