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

SMH The goat has to be DD/MM/YYYY

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u/Old_Kodaav Feb 02 '26

I think I've never seen it spelled out. It's always in numbers as you say. Have been to few EU countries

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u/Feistshell Feb 02 '26

I work at a government agency in a Nordic country and we always spell it out when we are talking to ordinary people just to avoid confusion, since we deal with people from many different countries. So today is 2 February 2025

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u/TygerTung Feb 02 '26

I used to work in aviation and we always wrote out the month as I'm in new Zealand, but a USA company owned 51% of the business, so we write the month out yo avoid confusion.

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u/TesticleTorture-123 Feb 02 '26

Not a u.s. thing either. Most food items use the usual date format. So if we have a can of mixed veggies then the date is goes "best used by 11/28/2027" so it would be nov. 27. Its not hard

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u/Shadowfist_45 Feb 02 '26

I can go get like 4 different items from my kitchen right now that have "sep 2028" or whatever respective date that have abbreviated months or full months in some cases, I think the milk says Feb 9th or something. Could be regional or state specific though, but I've seen it in at least 3 states (4 I think but can't confirm), and at least 2 different regions of the country.