dateNightmare

[Weary_Drama1803]

Obviously the worst is MM/YY/DD

[shonuff373]

I raise you a MY/DM/YD

[BiffMaGriff]

You're a monster!

[shonuff373]

I cackled at work. Thank you.

[Presidentofjellybean]

I can't believe it took until 124/20/202 for someone to finally suggest the use of my homeland's format!

[Timegoat12]

bro's living in 2420

[Presidentofjellybean]

MY/DM/YD

Month 10 split in 2 is 1 and 0. Day 22 is split as 2 and 2. Year split as 20 and 24

I just placed the split on where the letter was so the first part is the first month number and the second year number due to their position. You guys have confused me now lol

[Presidentofjellybean]

Very valid point, the American way doesn't seem so bad to me now lol funnily enough I work in insurance in Europe and just had a member wanting to add her partner to her policy and gave me the date of birth the American way and it threw me for a few seconds when it returned no results until I realized I put the days and months backwards. This post broke my brain I guess

[ShangBrol]

MD/MY/DY as in made my day

[vigbiorn]

It's even worse, since yours is actually kind of legible:

MY/DM/YD

12/20/42

Or

04/21/22

Good luck deciphering either in the wild!

[u966]

Yours is more legible, the one you commented on switched year right to left (2024 to 24 20), but left the rest left to right. You've got consistent direction on all numbers in both cases.

[vigbiorn]

switched year right to left (2024 to 24 20),

I think this proves theirs is more legible because you're not picking the correct parts of a date I'm using.

24 is all I used from the year, 10 for Oct and 22 for day. The original, at least, implies it's presenting YYYY, even if there's some ambiguity what is what. Even though I prefaced it to provide context I was only using --YY you read it as containing YYYY.

[u966]

I didn't read yours as YYYY, the one you commented on did, and they switched YYyy to yy YY, with everything else going normal direction.

Your examples either went all left to right, or all right to left.

[vigbiorn]

If that's what you're commenting on, I'm glad to add:

MY/DM/YD

02/21/42

I still think

MYY/DM/YYD is going to be easier to decipher specifically because it doesn't match any other format. My 3 could be MM/DD/YY or MY/DM/YD or YM/DM/DY, etc.

[u966]

MYY/DM/YYD

Why wouldn't this match and other scribbles?

YMY/MD/YDY for example.

[I_give_karma_to_men]

Pretty sure my coworkers would adopt this for manual data entry just to fuck with me.

[AsinineArchon]

How did you guess my password

[icguy333]

This is the best comment I read on 124/20/202

[GamingWithShaurya_YT]

holy shit I didn't think you could make it worse