• Luke@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    I’m a American living in the US and even I can only guess which date they meant. Everyone should just use the three letter month instead of the number when writing for other humans.

    Presumably they are referring to the US election day, but I feel like that was hardly an unexpected facepalm result, considering how many political facepalm moments there were along the way leading up to it.

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        20 hours ago

        Although, 8601 is still ambiguous if you don’t know ahead of time that it’s the format being used.

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          20 hours ago

          I’d say that starting with a year is a good hint, and as it’s written with dashes, it’s easy to recognize. The main problem is with people that don’t put any thoughts in and don’t know the format.