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.
American here, that didn’t expire on February 29th, it will expire on the second of Viginti-September. Easy mistake to make.
When read in the only proper order, it translates (for the non-technical types), to February 23rd, 2029.
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.
Edit: to curb the ISO standard comments, yes, that is the most efficient and organized way to write a date, but how many of you speak dates in ISO format? If you don’t commonly say “2023 February 29th” out loud, then you intrinsically understand that not all situations call for the ISO standard.
Please stop. That is another correct way to do it, and I said there is more than one, not two.
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:
The reason you keep hearing about it is because people won’t use the standard
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…
When was the last time you spoke dates to anyone in ISO? If you don’t ever say the year before the month and day, then you intrinsically know ISO is not always the best format for the situation.
Other languages including English, from England. We also say the 29th of February.
I’m not implying you can’t say “of” in English, but it’s common (and shorter) to say “Feb 29th.” It is not however correct to say “Feb 29th” in many other languages, which is why Europe made day first dates the regional standard. And just like with the imperial vs metric systems, England has shifted to more often use Europe’s standard rather than the one they came up with themselves.
we speak or write February 29th 2023.
oh, yeah? Remind me of the date of “America’s birthday” again?
1776/07/04, which is commonly written July 4th 1776 as well as 4th of July 1776. All three ways are correct. What’s your point?
It’s usually easy to determine which order the person commenting observes too, just from context. I’ve never understood the confusion.
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
I think you’ll find the 23rd of February exists. Fuck knows what preservatives are in those things to last a bit over 5 years.
To be pedantic, “290223” is not valid ISO 8601.
Two digit years are no longer allowed by the standard.
Everyone’s getting the dates wrong, it’s clearly the 23rd month of 2902 👍
That can’t be it either since 2902 isn’t a leap year so it only has about a dozen months
You weren’t sent the last memo, in 2500 we’ll finally replace the current, broken time system with an evolution of Swatch’s Internet Time. Days are divided in 1000 tiny parts, and years are also adjusted. A 2501 years has 50 months, except for leap years that now have 60 months
This comment section turned out almost as chaotic and confused as the old one, it’s actually quite impressive.
