It's like how calculators and telephone keypads are opposite. Each one feels natural in its own domain, but weird if used for the other purpose (i.e. Try dialin

It's like how calculators and telephone keypads are opposite. Each one feels natural in its own domain, but weird if used for the other purpose (i.e. Try dialing a phone number you're used to dialing all the time, but on a calculator. You can do it, but it don't feel right) With identifiers, we sometimes go from specific>general. Street addresses start with the house number first, then street, then city, state, etc. Domain names are the same. Most specific first, general TLD last. But then there are directory paths, (drive > folder > file), phone numbers (country > area > exchange > subscriber), and legal citations (code/title > chapter > section > paragraph > etc.) Which makes the American date format truly an outlier. 2020-09-13 seems right to me, but I think I prefer 13 SEP 2020. It's more aesthetic I think, and it also recognizes that there is no month called "9". Days and years are naturally numbered, but months have names.