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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The joke is that they've not been given in ISO8601 format, and also that they're both ambiguous. For the second one, we can't even tell which of the ends is the year.

[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly Randall absolutely would put the year in the middle just to fuck with us

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Publication 1988-06-05, latest amendment 2004-12-01.

I almost expected the two dates to use different formats, but no, they're just both "the American way".

[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago

Well you can only cram in so many jokes at once. Would have been funny though

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Knowing Americans it's probably the middle.