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Thenodrin, what you are describing is more of a procedural problem then file naming problem. If anyone can open a file and can do whatever they want with it, the company is asking for trouble.
If they hit "OK", let the message say: "you do not have write permission for the file", because the file would be owned by their supervisor. Then they either save it as a better version or ask their supe to update the old file, with one that has newer data in it.
The main reason to put the date in the file name rather than to rely on the Last Updated or Created By dates are because those dates can be artifically altered. If someone opens a file that has a formula, even if the formulas reference static data and nothing is apparantly altered at all, a "change" has been made. Which means that when Word or Excel prompts you to save changes many people click "yes" out of habit, figuring that there is no big deal because nothing in the file changed. Now, all of a sudden that file is out of sequence.
And, if your office should merge or separate storage drives, all of a sudden all files created before the merge or separation now show the same date.
If people are editing documents, then there is a need for versions. How else could anyone tell what was in the document prior to the edit? Prior verson may have been used downstream and someone may need to reference it again, for sake of consistency...
BTW I think that PHB's spawn is lurking around giving negative votes to people it hates.
This one hits home twice:
I once was bashed for using the "European" date format (yymmdd) in my files instead of the American. Also, we have a committee to draft entries in our internal on-line dictionary and the results are not dissimilar to the one in the comic.
Sort-by-date is useless as often people open obsolete documents, accidentally make a minor change and are then prompted to save when closing. You could use version names to get around, but people are often embarrassed by a file name like: simple-one-page-note-v45.docx.
Everyone is trumping the benefits of yearmonthday starts to filenames in order to order them by date - but what's wrong with the option "sort by date"?
