When I discovered the discussion that there was a bot being developed to change all of the dates to one format, that made me sit up and take notice.  That's not "using the date you are most comfortable with", that's imposing an arbitrary rule.

Zoe

 Jesse Alter <jesse@snacksoft.com> wrote:

I thought this was
a closed issue when it came to British and American spellings, and I
thought this would apply as well. Use the date you are most comfortable
with. Others will understand. If they don't understand, they should
learn that the name of the month refers to the month, the big number
refers to the year, and the small number refers to the day.