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"18.2.2020" seems easy. I once walked into a meeting room where the whiteboard said "Deadline: 4/7/3". No idea what I was reading.
by elygre 7y ago
"18.2.2020" seems easy. I once walked into a meeting room where the whiteboard said "Deadline: 4/7/3". No idea what I was reading.
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- thaumasiotes 7y ago18.2.2020 is easy if you recognize that 2020 must be a year and 18 can't be a month. But if you want to parse 18.2.2020, you probably want the same parser to handle 1.2.2020.
- 2007 7y agoWell, we know the year probably wouldn't have been 2007, because, I mean, come on, who does that? The year in the middle? Really? So that means... 2004/7/MAR APR/7/2003 If they're both in the past, you can erase it, since it's obviously not a deadline anymore. If one's in the past, then only the other possibility, March 7, 2004 might matter. If they were both in the future, you have to assume April 7, 2003 to be safe and early. Nonetheless, depending on project scale, a one year margin of error might only make sense for some realities. So, context could probably inform the truth, and outsiders can take it on the arches.