Of course, Windows bans the use of both / and \ (along with : and other useful things) in filenames anyway so you still can't enter dates in that format. I gues

Of course, Windows bans the use of both / and \ (along with : and other useful things) in filenames anyway so you still can't enter dates in that format. I guess back when they made the decision on the path separator the max path length in DOS was so short it may not have seemed relevant.