this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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I originally posted this on the other site back when I took the picture, and it resulted in a lot of confused comments, especially from Americans, eventually getting removed by overzealous mods. Either way, I promise you that this date does not exist, and has never existed.

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[–] sarmale@lemmy.zip 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] fatzgebum@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

February didn't have 29 days in 2023

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Remember, kids, not to ever compute dates yourselves. Use a library for that.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Memories of the old shitty codebase I inherited that had a bunch of if/else statements to add a day every four years. Which, of course, isn't even correct.

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

To be fair, by the time that code will fail, it won’t run anymore for a host of other reasons.

[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Man I swear I remember this on reddit.. or a post similar to it.

I remember many of my fellow Americans couldn't understand the date format.

Edit: And it looks like the same thing happened here..

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

You're so close. Even in European date formats, the 29th of February doesn't exist.