How should the date be formatted (dd-mm-yyyy vs yyyy-mm-dd, etc)?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

10 Prairial CCXX

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

C'mon, how hard is it just to spell out the month's abbreviation?  That way, no one gets confused no matter what order you put it in.

This times a million!  It's how I do it.  It's how the military does it.  It makes sense, NOBODY gets confused.  The fact that other people don't do it confuses me to no end.

28May12 

Simple, short, everybody knows what it means.

The twelfth day of May in the year 2028?    No matter which form is used, the four digit year makes the most sense, with the revolutionary calendar's convention of putting the year in Roman numerals coming a close second.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Month/Day/Year. Why fix what isn't broken?

MDY is broken.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Month/Day/Year. Why fix what isn't broken?

MDY is broken.

Oh?  Why do you say that? 

Because it is not consistently Big Endian or Little Endian.  Would you want time expressed as mm:ss:hh?

By themselves either DD-MM-YYYY vs YYYY-MM-DD are good, but the latter is the slightly better date format simply because time is consistently written in Big Endian format, so it makes some sense to be Big Endian there as well.

(It would be nice if internet addresses were also consistently big endian.  This site really should be org.uselectionatlas not uselectionatlas.org but that ain't gonna happen now, even tho some early computer network schemes did use such an idea.)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Month/Day/Year. Why fix what isn't broken?

MDY is broken.

Oh?  Why do you say that? 

Because it is not consistently Big Endian or Little Endian.  Would you want time expressed as mm:ss:hh?

No, because I am not accustomed to time being such. However, I am accustomed to MDY, and making any kind of switch would not be necessary, because people are accustomed to it, know it, and can use it proficiently, unlike your time proposal.

Some people are accustomed to MDY while many others are accustomed to DMY.  Indeed, North America is about the only place MDY is used.  DMY and YMD have the advantages of being consistent in its ordering and YMD (in the form YYYY-MM-DD) has the advantage that it cannot be mistaken for MDY as DMY can.