An incredibly American experience: handing my drivers license over to rent a car in New Zealand and having the employee confirm which digits of my birthday are my birth month and which are my birth day.

[rmondello@hachyderm.io]

An incredibly American experience: handing my drivers license over to rent a car in New Zealand and having the employee confirm which digits of my birthday are my birth month and which are my birth day.

[donkey@mastodon.nz]

@rmondello Welcome to #AotearoaNZ, Ricky!

[essjax@essjax.com]

@rmondello well, y'all do put them in a daft order to be fair

[rmondello@hachyderm.io]

@essjax You’ll get no argument from me.

[ollicle@mastodon.social]

@rmondello less of a problem I suppose for those born in the late 1900s

[jawnsy@mastodon.social]

@rmondello @essjax However...

Unsolicited Dating Advice

Overthinking and redesigning a fragmented date format

Joel Califa (joelcalifa.com)

[halaana@mastodon.social]

@rmondello And it would be avoided entirely if everyone just used ISO 8601....

[dan@mastodon.durrans.com]

@rmondello I love the gov.uk style guide for this. They have landed on using dd month-name yyyy for dates, with a compressed form of dd mmm yyyy where space is a constraint. Zero ambiguity. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/style-guide/a-to-z