It annoys me even though I’m still in the U.S.

Edit: For everyone saying CVs and resumes are different, that might be literally the case, but that is not how job applications are using them. I just went to this one:

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    There is a reason though. It’s because you probably want to put dates in order and when you ask a computer to sort things for you, it will automatically order things correctly when the date follows this format. If you put the month first, then the day, then the year, the default sorting behavior will order things incorrectly chronologically speaking.

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      Any important document I have is named ‘yyyymmdd(number)(briefdescription)’. Sort by name or date, I don’t care

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      when you ask a computer to sort things for you, it will automatically order things correctly when the date follows this format

      I’d go even further than that, and point out that the reason why computers sort things in this order is because that’s the most logical way to convey specific dates.

      Most significant digits on the left, descending left to right, in order, is how we do all other numerical representations. It’s only dates that we have different norms.