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[โ€“] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Technically, we can eliminate this class of user errors by holding up YYYY-MM-DD as the one true method of dating and smite the nonbelievers.

[โ€“] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

We're generally not allowed to smite the end users at work, satisfying as that may have been.

We can mostly just hope to keep that standard within the codebase, and seek alternative means of eliminating error classes for end users