Petty complaint:

ISO 8601 is the only date format that doesn’t force the reader to guess.

Look at these three strings:

17/09/25 14:00

25/09/17 2:00

09/17/25 14:00

Without context you can’t tell which number is the year, the month, or the day; every interpretation is equally plausible, so every reader loses.

2025-09-17 14:00,

Boooom, Instantly unambiguous: left-to-right you get year, month, day, hour, minute. It also sorts correctly as plain text.

Please, use ISO 8601 everywhere, anything else just wastes time and confuses people.

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