At work and at home, when I want to include a date in a file name, like when I have to send in a status report every week, I always use the format YYYYMMDD. That's four Y's for the year, two M's for the month and two D's for the day, like 20250218. This means the files are always sorted from oldest to newest. Sometimes it's hard to pick out those numbers as my screen reader is reading the file names though.

Well the other day I started adding some characters to separate the year, month and day, like the dash or the slash. They weren't satisfactory though. I then realized that I'm doing this for myself, and I don't care how it's going to look to a sighted user. After I realized this, I quickly settled on using commas! So for example, the status report I compiled today has 2025,02,18 in the name of the file. The comma causes the screen reader to pause a beat between each set of numbers. I'm very pleased with myself! 😎