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[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

But… that’s not the right way. Are you saying the ISO8601 violates ISO8601?

  • so, apparently not I just whooshed, I didn’t even noticed the dates are ambiguous.
[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 56 points 2 months 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 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 21 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Knowing Americans it's probably the middle.

[–] erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

You found the joke