All roads lead to: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD or maybe YYYY-MM
Or region specific date masks.
But I am happy with what is there now. I can actually use the search feature now.
@Steini you got me thinking, so I had a quick look and it seems the USA is out on its own with their date format.
I think you know that seeing a date like 2025-08-06 isnāt standardized worldwide. In the U.S., dates are usually written as MM-DD-YYYY, which makes it hard to tell whatās what until you see something like 08-25-2025 and can figure out the pattern. Thatās why I think Aug 25 is much clearer and easier to read than any numeric date format.
Aug 25th is how we write 25āth day of August, we add the th on the end. or 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th,ā¦ to signify it is a day.
I might make you mad, but I donāt think thatās the case! 
To my knowledge, the normal written form for date in UK is 25 August 2025 or for numeric is 25/08/2025. In comparison to Aug 25 which is clearly American style of writing it, UK prefers 25 Aug if abbreviated.
If I could choose for the whole world, I would pick the American way of writing short dates like Aug 6 or August 6. For longer formats, I would go with also American way like Friday, October 10, 2025, 18:00, but using military time without AM/PM. And for anything related to computers, Iād choose YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS. And, Iād always prefer the metric system over the imperial system used in the U.S. up until today.
In your example the full date is written, the examples I used where incomplete dates.
25 August 2025 although this is used, i donāt often see it. 25/08/2025 is used but the variant 25/08/25 is a lot more common and probably the most used the most.
25th of August i- I would say where the year is not defined you usually find st, nd, th after the number but I agree in digital systems this is not a common thing as the full date is usually used ie. 25/08/25.
Metric is brilliant. We donāt use imperial over here any more. We still ask for a pint of milk but it is not a pint.
As long as I do not get MM/DD/YY I will be happy.
I am now going to examine each date format I see for the next 2 weeks 
I still get milk from my local shop in multiples of 568ml which it think is a pint so i buy 1.136L which is 2 pints however other shops may charge the same for 500 ml rather than 568ml and charge slightly less for it or the same just to make a slightly larger profit. That said I donāt live in England, but another country that ajoins it where things may be different
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