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Sensible is the ISO 8601 standard with the RFC 3339. It's already been adopted by tech and governments and keeps all time big endian (bonus: it's alphabetical too). But LOL AmErIcaNs month first, right?



this is about ui, not data storage


Yeah, and it's easier to parse big endian all the way down. It doesn't tend to cause the same ambiguities that make folks have to double take to understand the data.




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