With the typical awful m/d/yy format, for a date like this, it's not uncommon for it to appear as just a mess of vertical lines when handwritten, especially for a date like 2011-11-11. (written as 11/11/11)
When the full four digit year is written, there's no confusion, and using hyphens clearly indicates what are numbers and what are separators. For a date like 2025-01-11 for example, using leading zeros makes it even harder for a separator to be confused as a number. If it was handwritten as 1/11/25, it would be easy to confuse the first slash as a second 1.
Also, consider writing your ones with a small “nose” and crossing your sevens.
It's ⋀⋀.⋀⋀. in Germany today
lmao as an American who interacts regularly with Germans, this made me lol
that's how I write my ones. It is funny but more satisfying then just putting a line.
All my homies cross their sevens.
Okay, maybe it’s just me.
And me. Slash zeroes too.
Me too - I've even changed my email font to Consolas so it matches my writing. Drives a few people nuts which just makes me lean into it even more!
Yes!
Sometimes I almost accidentally slash an “O” ha ha.
That would defeat the object somewhat.
Yup.
No, I couldn't tell those apart from the empty set
That'll surely confuse the Danes, due to their Ø-character.
I've been writing my 0s with a slash, Zs crossed, and 1s with the nose on documents recently and it makes a big difference.
Slashed zeroes are usually reserved for computer programming, but if it works for you, great :)
Preaching to the choir
iso8601 is our everydays, proud big endian country citizen here
Funnily enough I think 11/11/11 is quite hard to misinterpret no matter how you read it!
It can even be simplified: 1/11