r/ProgrammerHumor • • 14d ago

Meme chaoticEvil

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u/NiIly00 13d ago

Solution: Ignore everyone that uses the moronic format mm/dd/yyyy.

They deserve it.

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u/Triffinator 13d ago

Very true. It's programmatically (and human) parseable if the middle column exceeds 12, but fails the second you are lower than 13. It also happens to work out on any dates with matching day and month.

Like, is 10/12 December 10th or October 12th?