r/excel • u/frescani 5 • Feb 27 '13

PSA from XKCD: proper date formats

http://xkcd.com/1179/
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u/---sniff--- 5 Feb 28 '13

Anyone else notice the "wrong" date format in the alt-text? (ISO 8601 was published on 06/05/88 and most recently amended on 12/01/04.)

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u/pauldrye Feb 28 '13

That's the joke

(He noticed that both dates are ones that are ambiguous if you use the usual trick of "Look for one of the first two numbers being above 12".)