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Just Spell the Month

by paulmooreparks on 11/18/25, 3:35 PM with 3 comments

• by theamk on 11/18/25, 3:42 PM

  Nothing stops one from using ISO 8601 dates today - I highly recommend this to everyone.

  If I have to put a date in the document, it's always in the 20xx-05-10 format. No one has been complaining that they could not understand it yet

  (and I've just checked in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_countr... - only one region used yyyy-d-mm format, but even then it is not used "causally". Which means that format as close to unambiguous as one can get.)

• by taylodl on 11/18/25, 3:58 PM

  Just use NATO Standardization Agreement 1059. The date in question is written as 10MAY25 using this NATO standard. This of course is assuming human-to-human communication. For machine-to-machine communication then you would use RFC 3339 which is a profile of ISO 8601.