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[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

Here in the states we use short hand usually. So your date would just be stated as, "March 12th". Long format would start off as, "in the year 2026 AD/CE..." which is usually done in things like proclamations by local governments for naming a specific day in someone's honor.

For previous and current dates, people definitely use mmddyyyy and I don't like it. I would much prefer to use something along the line of star-dates from star trek time expressed in years only: 2026.19178 (March 12 00:00). This fixes the need for leap years/days/seconds in calendars and instead dates become accurate.