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Actual headline: "The Spanish family wrongly accused of child pornography due to a mistake reading a date" "An alert from a US organization followed American m
by kgwgk 6y ago
Actual headline: "The Spanish family wrongly accused of child pornography due to a mistake reading a date"
"An alert from a US organization followed American month-day-year usage, but this was misread by investigators in Spain. As a result, four people went through a nightmare situation"
- baby 6y agoThe amount of mistakes that must have been due to the American date format would probably be a good research topic. I know I’ve myself done countless mistakes due to it. As much as I can, I use the yyyy-mm-dd format which is always unambiguous.
- Benjamin_Dobell 6y agoMy accounting firm has two accountants that handle my documents. One of them uses Australian/British date formatting, and the other uses American date formats. Does my head in. Particularly odd seems as these are being sent to Australian Government bodies. To alleviate too many eye-brows being raised at the ATO regarding my time traveling prowess, I've recently started dating everything as "Mon DD, YYYY".
- __d 6y agoI also adopted the yyyy-mm-dd format, some time in the 90's. I later moved from Australia (dd-mm-yyyy) to the US (mm-dd-yyyy) and continued to use yyyy-mm-dd during my time there. I believe yyyy-mm-dd is the usual format in Japan, but I'm amazed that it hasn't seen more popular adoption worldwide, given the difficulties it solves.