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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 16 hours ago (12 children)

27 Feb 2013 is unambiguous- regardless of where you're from or how you write your dates, you can't confuse 2013 for the month or day, you can't confuse Feb for a day or week, and if you can't figure 27 out, then we have bigger problems!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 16 hours ago (9 children)

2013-02-27 is also unambiguous unless you’re aware of a country that uses year day month, is not?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (7 children)

2013-02-27 is also unambiguous.

Hey what's today's date?

It's 2025 -

No like the DAY?

Yeah, it's 2025, 02 -

Not the month, the day - What's today's actual date?

Like I was saying, if you'd let me finish, "2025 - 02 - 27"

I'm mostly joking, but when it comes to info about dates, I think the most evctive format it one that organizes the information within a heirachy that provides follow up answers.

Formatting dates as day / month / year does just that. Provides the day it is, followed by the month and year as that is the order that information is usually needed in.

I find providing the year first (or month) is much more ambiguous as neither are the day the actual date falls on.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

We need to get rid of the month/day and just refer to days by number. Today is day 121 in the year 2025, it's super clear.