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The reason you keep hearing about it is because people won't use the standard
you actually think you'll be able to convince anyone even remotely stupid or stubborn to use this? you must have never tried anything like this before then...
Well yeah, I never expected it to work...
When was the last time you spoke dates to anyone in ISO? If you don’t ever say the year before the month and day, then you intrinsically know ISO is not always the best format for the situation.
Spoken and written don't need to use the same format. Time also isn't spoken using the written format hhmmss.
So then we agree there is more than one correct date format.
It happens a few times a month, when dealing with something important to make sure people understand, same reason as to why I sometimes say times in a 24h format.