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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's written like 07 Aug 2013. It's consistent in character length, doesn't confuse internationals, doesn't take much space and is written exactly like being said around here. It's just not that great for file names.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, ok. Expanding the month to 3 chars does reduce potential confusion

I feel the need to be pedantic and point out that this is only necessary, however because of the ridiculous degenerate convention of MM DD YY(YY?) used by said country...