I originally posted this on the other site back when I took the picture, and it resulted in a lot of confused comments, especially from Americans, eventually getting removed by overzealous mods. Either way, I promise you that this date does not exist, and has never existed.
When read in the only proper order, it translates (for the non-technical types), to February 23rd, 2029.
Mmm. 6 year old bagels.
By that logic, you should fully spell out the month. FEB29 has no confusion. If you use the number then use the ISO standard.
I’m so tired of this “proper order” date debate among regions. Can’t we just accept that there can be more than one correct way to do things?
We commonly write dates 02/29/23 because we speak or write “February 29th 2023” while in other languages, it’s customary to speak or write “29th of February 2023” leading them to the common format 29/02/23.
Edit: to curb the ISO standard comments, yes, that is the most efficient and organized way to write a date, but how many of you speak dates in ISO format? If you don’t commonly say “2023 February 29th” out loud, then you intrinsically understand that not all situations call for the ISO standard.
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) be like:
This is my favorite comment thus far
Written language doesn’t have to follow spoken language. The ISO is for written things not spoken.
The reason you keep hearing about it is because people won’t use the standard
you actually think you’ll be able to convince anyone even remotely stupid or stubborn to use this? you must have never tried anything like this before then…
Well yeah, I never expected it to work…
Other languages including English, from England. We also say the 29th of February.
Real English is American you bloody redcoats are always appropriating our culture
oh, yeah? Remind me of the date of “America’s birthday” again?
It’s usually easy to determine which order the person commenting observes too, just from context. I’ve never understood the confusion.