Talking with Janet about the confusing differences between date notation in the U.S. and in Switzerland (month-day-year vs. day-month-year) led me, once again, to Wikipedia—this time for their article on date format. There I learned that my favorite format for dating files, especially of letters and photographs, is actually the ISO 8601 standard: yyyy-mm-dd (four digit year - two digit month - two digit day). I chose that for the simple reason that the files sort easily into chronological order. That's my format for files; for ordinary dates I'm not consistent, but often will use a format common to genealogists: e.g. 2 Feb 2007, which is pretty clear, except when sloppy handwriting confuses "Jun" and "Jan."
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