Alexander Skwar wrote:

> And in addition to that, it makes sorting a lot easier.  Even if you just do
> a plain ASCII sort, you'll end up with the items sort in increasing or
> decreasing order with no hassle, whereas in the old ways (dd/mm/yyyy or
> mm/dd/yyyy (yuck)) you have to implement a bit more logic.

Yes, I should have added that.    It also just happens to have been
the International Standard for the Representation of Dates in
Computers (ISO 1206, I think) for over two decades now.

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