ISO 2014 is a standard superseded by ISO 8601^[1]. ISO 2014 was the standard that originally introduced the big-endian all-numeric date notation [YYYY]-[MM]-[DD]. ISO 8601, Data elements and interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates and times is an international standard for date and time representations. ... When integers or any other data are represented with multiple bytes, there is no unique way of ordering of those bytes in memory or in a transmission over some medium, and so the order is subject to arbitrary convention. ...

References

1. ^ Technical Committee ISO/TC 154, Processes, data elements and documents in commerce, industry and administration. (2004-12-01). ISO 8601:2004(E). ISO. Retrieved on 2006-11-15. “Annex A … From that concept representations of all other date and time values were logically derived; thus, ISO 2014, ISO 3307 and ISO 4031 have been superseded.”