Imperial format?!?

[jumpjack]

Can you please use international format for dates? My Italian excel is getting crazy to interpret your data... We are not in 1800.

[iandoug]

I agree, but think changing it now is going to result in a lot of upset people..... they should have used program-friendly date and time formats from day 1.

[cipriancraciun]

@jumpjack Given how many people are already using this dataset in the current format, I think such a change would break everything once more.

Moreover, in order to keep things tidy and help the JHU team, would you consider closing this issue and following #318 which discusses the same subject and seems to have the most up-votes.