Which I was the justification used when my work decided to use 2025-May-01.

It’s close enough to the iso date that nobody will be confused but with that 1 extra layer of security blanket to separate months and days.

Of course, that does ruin sorting, so I think it was a bit silly, nobody has ever used yyyyddmm so it’s all a bit theoretical to me.

Moral authority is always dubious, violence or not.