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We could make it even more informative by adding location and season.
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If you read the digits in reverse it matches ISO 8601.
And yes I know it's a joke (:
ISO 8601 is the only right way. Easy to read and write and trivially sortable.
Great for dating files, too. We have an otherwise exceptionally inefficient routing chain at work, but we're required to start each file with the date it was created (e.g. 20250101 Johnson Commendation) and it works beautifully for finding files and knowing how long they've sat in someone's "bucket" even though a hard copy is being delivered office-to-office (but final memo needs to be signed digitally). sigh