It doesn't help at all if they try to localize it because then it's just 11/3/2021 which is equally confusing and you have no idea if they're using your local f

It doesn't help at all if they try to localize it because then it's just 11/3/2021 which is equally confusing and you have no idea if they're using your local format or theirs. Any what's your local format? The country you're in or the country you were in when you signed up for the service or the country your VPN server is in? Internet services really need to stop using these stupid mistake-inducing, time wasting date formats. People might have a sense of unfamiliarity seeing ISO8601 format but they can still understand it. I use ISO8601 dates everywhere possible. Paper forms in the real world where people look at me strangely, invoices, file names which is really handy for sorting, my personal todo lists, everything.