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		Sharlin on Nov 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service Yyyy-mm-dd is not used in real life because it puts the (in most contexts) least useful information first.

lbschenkel on Nov 7, 2020 | [–]

FYI: this is the common way to write dates in Sweden.

young_unixer on Nov 6, 2020 | [–]

ISO 8601 also allows --mm-dd.

I use it all the time.

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