Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Easiest Way To Find Product End Of Life Dates" video.

  1. Some people already write their dates like that in the US, it just depends on what field they're in.
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  2. The reason for the confusion is that most of the time dates get written without a year. In such an instance, mm/dd makes the most sense as the month has higher relevance than the day of the month, the same as when referring to the time to say hh:mm. However, when writing out the full date including the year, it makes more sense to put the year first. Why anyone ever got in the habit of putting the year last in non-abbreviated forms I'll never understand, regardless of whether you do mm/dd or dd/mm, using the year in a date it only makes sense to do yyyy-mm-dd. As a possible point of interest, in my .bashrc I've got ``export TIME_STYLE="+%F %T"``, which in case you're not aware of strftime() and its format specifiers will use as the display time format for `ls` "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" which zero pads single digits.
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