• deranger@sh.itjust.works
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      21 hours ago

      Despite living in the US my whole life, I don’t subscribe to the insane mm/dd/yy ordering, it’s the most ass backwards shit. That’s why I wrote 22 July. Not sure how you got 22nd month out of that when it’s unambiguous.

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        1 hour ago

        That part was unambiguous, and the month comment was clearly a joke; however, the very next line you write “22/7”. While you meant division, you accidentally wrote common date separator format, which WAS ambiguous and opened the door for the joke.

        You could have written 22 ➗ 7 to get the effect you were aiming for ;).

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        18 hours ago

        Hello! I don’t intend to convince anyone one way is better than another, but I wanted to share why I like the mm/dd/yy format.

        Simple reason, the number of possible integers increases as you go left to right.
        12/31/9999

        That’s all, got it out of my system. Thank you for reading.