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.

  • Freewheel@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    5811·
    11 months ago

    When read in the only proper order, it translates (for the non-technical types), to February 23rd, 2029.

    • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
      1·
      11 months ago

      By that logic, you should fully spell out the month. FEB29 has no confusion. If you use the number then use the ISO standard.

    • eric@lemmy.world
      3159·
      11 months ago

      I’m so tired of this “proper order” date debate among regions. Can’t we just accept that there can be more than one correct way to do things?

      We commonly write dates 02/29/23 because we speak or write “February 29th 2023” while in other languages, it’s customary to speak or write “29th of February 2023” leading them to the common format 29/02/23.

        • eric@lemmy.world
          629·
          11 months ago

          Please stop. That is another correct way to do it, and I said there is more than one, not two.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        11 months ago

        I’m so tired of this “proper order” date debate among regions. Can’t we just accept that there can be more than one correct way to do things?

        International Organization for Standardization (ISO) be like:

      • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        11 months ago

        Written language doesn’t have to follow spoken language. The ISO is for written things not spoken.

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        10·
        11 months ago

        The reason you keep hearing about it is because people won’t use the standard

        • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
          41·
          11 months ago

          you actually think you’ll be able to convince anyone even remotely stupid or stubborn to use this? you must have never tried anything like this before then…

        • Cjwii@lemm.ee
          42·
          11 months ago

          Real English is American you bloody redcoats are always appropriating our culture

      • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
        51·
        11 months ago

        It’s usually easy to determine which order the person commenting observes too, just from context. I’ve never understood the confusion.

        • lad@programming.dev
          1·
          11 months ago

          Yeah, especially with something like 03/04/07 12:47 AM

          The likes of this date and time are just evil because not only you may mistake day for month or even year, but also 12 AM in some places precedes 1 AM while in other places it precedes 1 PM.

          I’m almost convinced that an additional info with a UNIX timestamp must be always shown to be used as a ground truth wherever a date is presented

          • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
            1·
            11 months ago

            I agree it can be confusing if presented without context or explanation, but in most cases one can easily determine order (e.g., OP’s post)