this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

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I originally posted this on the other site back when I took the picture, and it resulted in a lot of confused comments, especially from Americans, eventually getting removed by overzealous mods. Either way, I promise you that this date does not exist, and has never existed.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uh am I just special, because I saw February 29th 2023 immediately Isn't a lot of things formatted in the DD/MM/YYYY type especially for expiration dates

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

February 29th 2023 isn't a real date

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Then what is the point of your first comment?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's just the EU date style.

I find my brain reads dates the US way first and then immediately rereads the EU way after, when that doesn't make sense. It's pretty automatic.

Not even tangentially related.. but I replaced the dumb American (and I know UK as well) 3 fingers gesture with the German 3 when I learned of it as a teenager. It's so much more efficient and reasonable compared to stretching our fingers out unnaturally...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Isn't it basically the rest of the world style? like metric?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ISO8601 is the one true date format