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this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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When read in the only proper order, it translates (for the non-technical types), to February 23rd, 2029.
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.
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