The article could have been better citing RFC 2550 "Y10K and Beyond" which despite being a joke (April 1st) RFC provides a completely universal date format (can

The article could have been better citing RFC 2550 "Y10K and Beyond" which despite being a joke (April 1st) RFC provides a completely universal date format (can describe any date present and future, with as much precision as you want), that are orderable by their lexical sort order. Yet present day time representation are easily parsed by regular humans.