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Largely it's going to depend on who your audience is. If you're writing for an American audience, use American conventions. British audience, British conventions.
Things to be aware of:
Date formats:
US: 5/6/2024
British/India/Australia: 6/5/2024
Currency formats:
US: $1,234.56
Europe reverses that, so €1.234,56
https://www.ricksteves.com/travel-tips/trip-planning/european-numbers
India: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system
That's above and beyond things like Metric conversion which the US largely does not use except in soda bottles. 1, 2 and 3 liter bottles.
Spelling:
In the US, it's "color", in the UK it's "colour". There are LOTS of examples like this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences
Avoid confusion in dates by saying May 6, 2024. This is the Canadian way because we had dd/mm/yy, but American influence of mm/dd/yy led to mass confusion. Everyone switched to May 6 to avoid it all.
But then there's also the European standard of "6 May 2024". ;)
https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/formal-date-writing
Are you serious? It's spelt out. The other one you can confuse day and month.
The order is still different.
Not the point I was making.