Minor, minor point: why would an employee of an american company write the dates using the DD/MM/YYYY format instead of the american MM/DD/YYYY?
Again, I know this is a very minor point, put it was distracting.
Again, I know this is a very minor point, put it was distracting.
This format is common in heavily regulated industries and frequently a regulatory requirement since it’s fully unambiguous. I (American) worked in clinical research/pharma for a bit and still write my dates like 23Jan2024.
I know that by using dd MMM YYYY you avoid the ambiguity of dd/MM vs MM/dd, and avoiding the ambiguity is important, but I think most folks know that when the year comes first, then what follows is the month. If someone sees 2024-03-05, I don't think most people wonder Is that March 5th, of May 3rd of 2024? And I like YYYY-MM-dd because it's (a) In alignment with ISO 8601 and (b) sorts so much easier as plaintext.
In documentation, I'll use dd MMM YYYY for signatures and document dates, but for things like big tabular data in the body of a document or in spreadsheets, or logging, or CSV exports, I'll default to YYYY-MM-dd
Is also the standard international format for aeronautical publications.
Yours sincerely, guilty of using ICAO phonetic alphabet with poor random office workers over the phone.
And some idioms involved in it don't translate easily if you're not conversing in English, for example X-Ray or Yankee.
Still most of it works out so less confusing than if I tried to jury rig something (traditional polish way was to use First Names that use given letter as the first letter, but that doesn't cover X or Y well, either)
Like the scene in that Tarantino movie with nazis, where the British spy give himself away by ordering three whiskey with the wrong fingers ...