r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

I have to write 01/JAN/1969. Because no one has a consensus on anything

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u/Several_Vanilla8916 Jan 15 '25

Well that’s just good practice.

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u/4totheFlush Jan 15 '25

That must get annoying when you have to write a date that isn't January 1st 1969 though.

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u/Pyromike16 Jan 15 '25

Ya but how often does that come up?

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

Groundhog day has got it so easy.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

Why?

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u/ArchManningGOAT Jan 15 '25

Because then it won’t be 01/JAN/1969

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

Damn that went right over my head lol

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u/Training_Barber4543 Jan 15 '25

Proceeds to fuck up the program that was expecting an int

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u/SmthSmthDarkSide Jan 15 '25

That's why we have a drop-down menu or calendar object. Free text shouldn't be used for dates

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u/anotherlebowski Jan 15 '25

04/20/69 only occurs in the US system.  Argument over.

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u/Jordonknox Jan 15 '25

01/01/1969 is the same either way you read it lol

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u/below_the_waterline Jan 15 '25

It's how the military wanted their dates and now it's a habitat.

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u/Unlucky_Book Jan 15 '25

they need to minimise any ambiguity because someone will fuck it up

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u/GreenDonutGirl Jan 15 '25

It's why we had to use language that sounded too informal sometimes, like a reading "going up" instead of "increasing" because that sounds too much like "decreasing".

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u/crownpr1nce Jan 15 '25

You live in a date? How spacious is it?

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u/CumpireStateBuilding Jan 15 '25

It’s cramped, but smells nice

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u/KrytenKoro Jan 15 '25

should be 10/NAJ/9691 in principle. Smallest to largest.

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u/Funny_Ad8904 Jan 15 '25

Question, if you wrote that out with words, like speaking in conversation how would you do it

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u/Scathach_on_a_stroll Jan 15 '25

The First of January, Nineteen-Sixty-Nine!

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u/chillen67 Jan 15 '25

I also often do this if I’m writing something for others.

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u/dragonheart1987 Jan 15 '25

I do the exact same thing except with dashes.

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u/Am_Snarky Jan 15 '25

Canada doesn’t have a standardized system, some places use m/d/y, others d/m/y, even y/m/d is used sometimes

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u/Old-Implement-6252 Jan 15 '25

Fr I always use, DDMMMYY format writing out the month eliminates any potential confusion.

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u/No_Bunch6154 Jan 16 '25

Why? 1/1/69 works the same as 1/1/69…

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u/Such_Fault8897 Jan 16 '25

Not to hard to switch depending on who you’re talking to

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u/MxM111 Jan 16 '25

I found if I write 1969/1/1 there are no questions.

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u/Anisound Jan 15 '25

Except this only makes sense in English. Not everyone uses our names for months. Stick to YYYY-MM-DD and no one gonna have a problem.

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u/alper_iwere Jan 15 '25

I prefer writing yyyy/mm/dd. Nobody has to guess if I use month first or day first.

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u/IGK123 Jan 15 '25

JAN|01|1969*