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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    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.

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      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

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        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)