I like dd MMM YYYY just fine, especially in documentation. But truthfully, I much prefer YYYY-MM-dd.
I know that by using dd MMM YYYY you avoid the ambiguity of dd/MM vs MM/dd, and avoiding the ambiguity is important, but I think most folks know that when the year comes first, then what follows is the month. If someone sees 2024-03-05, I don't think most people wonder Is that March 5th, of May 3rd of 2024? And I like YYYY-MM-dd because it's (a) In alignment with ISO 8601 and (b) sorts so much easier as plaintext.
In documentation, I'll use dd MMM YYYY for signatures and document dates, but for things like big tabular data in the body of a document or in spreadsheets, or logging, or CSV exports, I'll default to YYYY-MM-dd
I know that by using dd MMM YYYY you avoid the ambiguity of dd/MM vs MM/dd, and avoiding the ambiguity is important, but I think most folks know that when the year comes first, then what follows is the month. If someone sees 2024-03-05, I don't think most people wonder Is that March 5th, of May 3rd of 2024? And I like YYYY-MM-dd because it's (a) In alignment with ISO 8601 and (b) sorts so much easier as plaintext.
In documentation, I'll use dd MMM YYYY for signatures and document dates, but for things like big tabular data in the body of a document or in spreadsheets, or logging, or CSV exports, I'll default to YYYY-MM-dd