My two favourite date formats are: (1) yyyy-MMM-dd and (2): yyyyMMdd.
Why?
(1) eliminates any ambiguity regarding interpretation. You can have an instance of a server of an unknown provenience and/or regional settings and still count on yyyy-MMM-dd to be correctly recognized.
(2) on the other hand has a nice feature of being sortable and can also be stored as an integer value if needed.
The US standard of MM/dd/yyyy is ridiculous. But it's just one of many and I'm not going to fix the world ;)
On the main topic: if anyone needs to calculate the circumference of the Universe (radius: 50bn lightyears ish) with the accuracy of the Planck distance (approximately 1.6 x 10^-30 meters), they need less than 65 digits of Pi to do so. So, as already stated, it's just a PR stunt, nothing more.
Why?
(1) eliminates any ambiguity regarding interpretation. You can have an instance of a server of an unknown provenience and/or regional settings and still count on yyyy-MMM-dd to be correctly recognized.
(2) on the other hand has a nice feature of being sortable and can also be stored as an integer value if needed.
The US standard of MM/dd/yyyy is ridiculous. But it's just one of many and I'm not going to fix the world ;)
On the main topic: if anyone needs to calculate the circumference of the Universe (radius: 50bn lightyears ish) with the accuracy of the Planck distance (approximately 1.6 x 10^-30 meters), they need less than 65 digits of Pi to do so. So, as already stated, it's just a PR stunt, nothing more.