KITCHENER – Local man Dalton Strickland, whose data entry job regularly requires him to read dates off a form and put them into a computer, literally never knows which date is the day and which is the month unless the day is above 12. “Are we using the American MM-DD-YYYY system or the rest of […]

Because he didn’t know about ISO8601. The only correct date format, especially in Canada.

  • mrbnEnglish
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    3 months ago

    "What. No it’s month first,” responded his girlfriend Christine. The couple subsequently got in a huge fight and broke up, meaning their relationship only lasted from 10/01/2023-05/03/2024, with neither knowing if that is 6 months or over a year.

    What a good line 😂

    • dankmOPEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      The Beaverton is great.

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      , with neither knowing if that is 6 months or over a year.

      I mean, that’s the kind of ambiguity that makes exes hot, right?

      …right?