01-02-2014
A best practice is to use the YYYYMMDD format (date '+%Y%m%d') for the date, so that further sorting are made easy.
Not that YYYY is better than YY because retaining only the 2 last digit suppose a loss of information and may lead to ambiguous situations.
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