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A post-mortem with non-ISO dates? Even on THAT date?! :)

• smegsicle 5y ago
  looks unambiguous to me lol
  • mulmen 5y ago
    Ok, what is the format string? a) m-dd-yy b) m-yy-dd I can't tell. How do you disambiguate?
    • rjh29 5y ago
      It can't be either, 22 is not a valid month. I agree with you though, the point of a date like yyyy-mm-dd is to avoid working out stuff like this. You don't pick a date format based on whether the current date is ambiguous or not.
      • mulmen 5y ago
        Good catch. I updated my post. The question remains, how can this format be disambiguated? Agreed, this is why ISO8601 exists.
        • RandallBrown 5y ago
          It's disambiguated by context, like most ambiguities in language. This is the title of a blog post after all.
    • lkbm 5y ago
      If you're trying to write a date parser for their outage report titles, the problem isn't the format of this date. It's that this is their only outage report with a date for the title. It's the title because it's a novel date, and formatted this way to emphasize the novelty. It's also a date for which your question is irrelevant: it's the same either way.