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The alternate I like to use on forms and such when I know it's likely going to be read by a human is "DD Mon YYYY", e.g.

   1 Feb 2021

This is a bit more human-readable and closer to commonly-used forms of dates while still being completely unambiguous.

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I worked on a system once that failed in Sweden when we changed the locale from US.

Someone was getting the date as 01MMMYYYY and using it as a partition name. When the first day of the tenth month happened, everything broke, because it was expecting OCT, not OKT.

Unambiguous but wrong.

With humans reading it, either you need to be unambiguous, so use yyyy-mm-dd, or you don't have to be, so use a format that most of your audience will understand.

> This is a bit more human-readable and closer to commonly-used forms of dates while still being completely unambiguous.

A bit more human readable you say? So 1 фев 2021, 1 Lut 2021, or 2021 فبراير1 are readable to you? I don't know but to me that's just US-centric thinking all over again.

That's true, but as I said, I just use this in certain human-read contexts, e.g. paper forms. Which in my part of the word are normally in English.

>2021 فبراير1

I was going to ragequit at you for copy+pasting something into google translate, as it's شُبَاط not فبراير.

but TIL, only in the Levant do we say شُبَاط apparently.

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