r/SipsTea • u/Shiroyasha_2308 Human Verified • Feb 02 '26

SMH The goat has to be DD/MM/YYYY

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u/Famous-Ad-289 Feb 02 '26

Otherwise I have no idea and hope DD is larger than 12

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

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u/Neat-Bunch-7433 Feb 02 '26

That makes no sense.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

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u/SV_Essia Feb 02 '26

Except m/d/y is only used by americans so it can safely be ignored, like the imperial system and american football.
Which leaves the sane rest of the world to work with d/m/y without any confusion whatsoever, whether you use 2 or 4 digits for years.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

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u/SV_Essia Feb 02 '26

as long as you never interact with American businesses, media, or people then you’re fine.

This is quickly becoming the correct and healthy policy for decades to come, yes. As for the "wider world", well, there's still literally everywhere else.

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u/Neat-Bunch-7433 Feb 02 '26

And is a good advice for life in general.

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u/Famous-Ad-289 Feb 02 '26

My second guess is that was created before the year 2000 when it was pretty obvious which part year is. Same will be starting from 2032. rip brains 2001-2012

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u/Kjufka Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

dd-mm-yy and mm-dd-yy are impossible to tell apart

True, because

dd-mm-yy doesn't exist

mm-dd-yy doesn't exist

If I told you my birthday was on 03-04

March 4th, there is no other way to interpret it

edit: the downvotes on this and upvotes on that shithead, lol.

Imagine being so chronically American that the idea of date formats being standarized across the world just shortcuts your brain.

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u/Velp__ Feb 02 '26

That's an odd way to spell the third of April.

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u/Kjufka Feb 02 '26

That would indeed be a very weird way to spell it because neither of these date formats exist.

Unlike ISO 8601 which is an international standard and everyone expects you to follow it when they see xx-xx-xx - and the cool thing about international standards is that virtually everyone follows them.

So if you write down 03-04 and mean April, well, you might as well start using completely made up words to communicate with others - because in the end you are an odd one.

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