Japan is on its own wavelength.
Engywuck, TBH, Japanese format makes sense when you use it to name files/directories, as sorting by “name” is equivalenti to sorting by “last modified”.
dtrain, equivalenti
Love typos that force me to read comments with an Italian accent
Engywuck, I’m actually italian, lol, but that was a genuine typo.
joneskind, 
Free upvotes for both of you
pingveno, Until you need to work across centuries. Then it’s eating paste level.
AlboTheGuy, 
Japan I can get behind but MM/dd/yyyy is just evil, why would you sandwich days between months and years? You monster
DAMunzy, I’m an ISO 8601 guy but the MM/DD does make sense in American. We’ll say Oct 20th for a date and then straight translate that to numbers 10/20. It makes more sense than counting in French. Ex. 60, 70, 80, 90
Littleborat, Counting in French is an incredibly low benchmark. Nice try!
15liam20, It makes more sense than Monty Python.
First, (edited ) Prepare your butthole for the Danish spoken number system, where they express integers in fractions
Littleborat, They should just introduce a new system. Noone likes five halves of twenty for fifty. I guarantee it.
Just indroduce English numbers, the end.
CorrodedCranium, (edited ) 
The only reason I could see is if you were speaking it. September 18th 2012 for example might sound a bit better than 18 September 2012.
Lucidlethargy, Japan wins this one.
hungryphrog, What about YY/DD/MM?
Crackhappy, 
Oh fuck off. ;)
hungryphrog, I’ll fuck of when it’s 2024/22/11.
Crackhappy, (edited ) Hey. If you use your format, then you won’t be able to celebrate the new year on 123123, 233112 just doesn’t have the same ring to it
rustyricotta, If that one doesn’t tickle you, we do have more options to explore like MM/YY/DD or DD/YY/MM
Hell, we even have options like MDY/MDY
Sanyanov, DD/YY/MM is the devil incarnate
ZILtoid1991, Japanese 
2023年12月22日
kpw, Japanese 令和5年12月22日
stebo02, 
令和五年十二月二十二日
Siegfried, I like that this includes 2 of the 4 numbers that i can understand from japanese (chinese numerals?)
Sanyanov, Funny that only in full Chinese (or Japanese, since 令和 represents a new emperor era in Japan?) I noticed the month is December.
It’s 22nd of November, folks
stebo02, yeah i realised after, I guess some people are just really excited about Christmas
kamen, DD/MM for readability, YYYY/MM/DD for alphabetical sorting that’s also chronological.
Clbull, (edited ) Ironically, MM/DD/YYYY works better for chronological sorting than DD/MM/YYYY, so long as you don’t go between years.
Didn’t think I’d be saying this but the Americans have an edge over us Brits.
sukhmel, Excuse me, sir, but WAT?
Clbull, What I said, MM/DD/YYYY is less flawed than DD/MM/YYYY for chronological sorting.
Asian YYYYMMDD way is the best way for computing…, but the American way at least preserves the month and day structure.
kamen, By this logic one might say that DD/MM/YYYY works for alphabetical chronological sort if you don’t go between months…
victorz, Have another go at this train of thought, mate… You’re basically saying “MM/DD” is better at sorting chronologically than “DD/MM”, since the year part is taken out of the equation, which is already the established consensus, and not ironical whatsoever. And the ISO standard is already to use YYYY-MM-DD, so that’s the winner IMO, hands down. Japan is simply following that but using a slash as the delimiter.
EPBJ, May I chime in with a DD MMM YYYY as in 22 NOV 2023
DahGangalang, The real superior option (except when naming files)
runner_g, I chime in with a “haven’t you people ever heard of… DDMMMYYY?”
Ddhuud, 23Nov023?
raino, 23NovNineteen ninety eight
Spoilt, DDDMMMYYY
ThuNov023
MisterFrog, 
Japan isn’t on its own wavelength, most of East Asian does this, probably because they all decided they wanted to be like China: which was a government which governed more. youtu.be/Mh5LY4Mz15o?t=1m7s
Rolando, The right answer is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
spencer, Hey… it sorts properly alphabetically
bleistift2, *ASCIIbetically. The alphabet doesn’t know digits.
nightdice, Only within the same century, which is an issue for those of us born last millennium (or managing systems from that time), and could be a real problem in 50-ish years when we could get the first duplicates.
Better to stick with YYYY-MM-DD for alphabetical sorting
CCF_100, SQL HAS ENTETED THE CHAT;
Hoomod, Why would you save dates as a date format when you can save them as an int or string and make calculations more complicated
neutron, (edited ) Its the same for all East Asian countries as well, but I guess slapping
JAPANon it means fast upvotes, like that“Place, Japan”meme.
15liam20, (edited ) I can’t speak for everyone but I see something Japanese then I upvote it, doesn’t matter what it is.
Sushi, Bullet train, Bonsai, Anime, Bukkake, Haiku
solidsnake2085, 
Military be like 23/NOV/2023
AlboTheGuy, Japan I can get behind but MM/dd/yyyy is just evil, why would you sandwich days between months and years? You monster
ShaunaTheDead, 
It makes sense to either go general to specific or specific to general. MM-DD-YYYY is neither.
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