[mythtv-users] Changing the Airdate format

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 01 Feb 2025 11:23:03 -0500, you wrote:

>On Sat, 2025-02-01 at 15:32 +0100, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> It should depend on the language/country setting of the machine,
>> sometimes overridable by setting a different language/country in the
>> program. 
>> For US the default is mm/dd/yyyy
>> Most European countries have a default of dd-mm-yyyy
>> In Japan they use yyyy-mm-dd (for easy sorting!).
>
>Exactly!

And the yyyy-mm-dd format was officially adopted as the ISO standard,
because it is easily sortable and is easily able to be visually
differentiated from the other formats - no confusion is possible.

See ISO 8601:

https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html