https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 is elegant because it solves the US/UK date ordering conflict and simultaneously r

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 is elegant because it solves the US/UK date ordering conflict and simultaneously renormalizes for most-to-least significant (which has been standard in the Far East for thousands of years). Depoliticizing time is a good thing(TM). See also: use of BCE suffix in dates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era and the total mess that is attempting to express to a human the actual meaning of an entry in the TZ database. http://tz.iana.narkive.com/QuK9m7tT/tz-proposal-for-a-modern-collapsed-namespace http://tz.iana.narkive.com/QuK9m7tT/tz-proposal-for-a-modern...