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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 54 points 2 days 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 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 19 points 2 days 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".

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

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Knowing Americans it's probably the middle.