Humble Bundle 1.7.14

No. How does reversing the order make it more sensible or logical?

20140107 is the sensible logical format.

In entire world days come before months. Only in US it's all screwed up.

how is sorting to max numerical value not logical

It is not logical by any stretch of the imagination. Because those are orders, day being the lowest and year being the highest. Rearranging date orders is like placing hundreds before tens.

now for pronouncing... mm/dd/yyyy rolls off the tongue better to

That's only in English and only because you got used to it. In my language you would never even imagine to put a month before a day in a speech. Unless you wanted to sound archaic and like being stared at in confusion.

Actually, no.

I would say "on the 7th of January". Which is the most logical way outside of cataloguing.

There is a difference between written and spoken dates, anyway, so I try to look at them independently. From a logical point of view 2014-01-07 makes more sense in written form to me, though. It goes from a wider range to precise information and doesn't depend on context.

I'm not saying, though, that it is always the perfect solution because context makes some information redundant, but in comparison to the other patterns it works best universally. It feels counter-intuitive because it's different from the way we are used to handle dates, but this bias would vanish after one generation of sticking to the standard.

The least significant data is the day, because it's changing every day, so I would understand using it on the left or on the right but why in the middle ? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY ?