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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    11 months ago

    The reason you keep hearing about it is because people won’t use the standard

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      11 months ago

      you actually think you’ll be able to convince anyone even remotely stupid or stubborn to use this? you must have never tried anything like this before then…

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      11 months ago

      When was the last time you spoke dates to anyone in ISO? If you don’t ever say the year before the month and day, then you intrinsically know ISO is not always the best format for the situation.

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        11 months ago

        Spoken and written don’t need to use the same format. Time also isn’t spoken using the written format hhmmss.

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        11 months ago

        It happens a few times a month, when dealing with something important to make sure people understand, same reason as to why I sometimes say times in a 24h format.