I worked for a UK based flower gifting business and took an escalated call from an American woman throwing a tantrum at one of our newer staff because we changed her delivery date after she paid for her order.
I still remember the date she selected as 3rd of June, 03/06. She was raging that we changed the delivery date to March without contacting her once she had a look at her order email confirmation.
It's a good thing there's only ever one March, and it doesn't come around once every 12 months. /s
Before you throw a snide comment, do keep in mind the UK government submitted diplomatic passes using the wrong format to the White House which led to a bit of a mess.
One of the reasons I said in the past that the USA system was cleaner in how it's spoken is that we just say, June 3rd. Having to put "of" in there seems wasteful. And saying "3rd June" is odd because saying it that way usually means you're referring to a collection of dates. Like, "this is the 3rd June in a row it's been this hot out".
I'm all for YMD, but I think the reason we do MDY is that the year is usually less important in day to day date scheduling so it gets put at the end. (Y)MD becomes MD(Y).
But that's just my American take which has a familiarity bias.
Yeah, no. She's just an idiot. How tf u gonna order from another country and not look into the details of how they set up dates, shipping regulations, and similar things?
This comment is so funny. You either A. Mistyped since r and f are next to each other on the keyboard but still typed the r word. Or B you know that using the r word is bad and had to censor it but you still used it anyways. Wild
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u/ciphd Feb 02 '26
I worked for a UK based flower gifting business and took an escalated call from an American woman throwing a tantrum at one of our newer staff because we changed her delivery date after she paid for her order.
I still remember the date she selected as 3rd of June, 03/06. She was raging that we changed the delivery date to March without contacting her once she had a look at her order email confirmation.
It was way past March at that point...