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Edmund Grimley-Evans <dfkihueg%RZ.UNI-SB.DE@CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU> writes:

>The form YYYY-MM-DD is
>already widely used in the Esperanto-speaking world...

It is also standard in Canadian government practice, I believe also in an
ISO standard, and very close to what the Japanese regularly use (the only
difference is that they use periods rather than hyphens, and count from
the start of the Emperor's reign rather than from the assumed date of
Jesus' birth).

It is also most logical, since every digit means a smaller unit than the pre-
ceding one, whether within fields or across them.