Ricky Mondello
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.
Feb 28 at 5:43amWeb
Show threaddonkeyFeb 28
@rmondello Welcome to #AotearoaNZ, Ricky!
Show threadessjaxFeb 28
@rmondello well, y'all do put them in a daft order to be fair 😁
Show threadRicky MondelloFeb 28
@essjax You’ll get no argument from me.
Show threadJonathan YuFeb 28

@rmondello @essjax However...

https://joelcalifa.com/blog/unsolicited-dating-advice/

Unsolicited Dating Advice

Overthinking and redesigning a fragmented date format

Joel Califa
Show threadOllie BoermansFeb 28
@rmondello less of a problem I suppose for those born in the late 1900s
Show threadMatthias AßhauerFeb 28
@ollicle @rmondello the nature of the problem probably wasn't "are they old enough", but "I need to enter their date of birth into a form".
Show threadOllie BoermansFeb 28
@asshauer @rmondello I indeed failed to engage both of the necessary synapses. Month vs Day, not Month vs Year. Slinks away…
Show threadHalaanaFeb 28
@rmondello And it would be avoided entirely if everyone just used ISO 8601....
Show threadDaniel DurransFeb 28
@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
Style guide - A to Z - Guidance - GOV.UK

The Government Digital Service style guide covers style, spelling and grammar conventions for all content published on GOV.UK, arranged alphabetically.

Show threadHugo van KemenadeFeb 28
@rmondello Next time, simply be born on 1/1, 2/2, 3/3, 4/4, 5/5, 6/6, 7/7, 8/8, 9/9, 10/10, 11/11, 12/12 or any date after the 12th
Show threadN3r0Feb 28
@rmondello didn't you need a translation for your license?
Show threadsoup2nutsFeb 28
@rmondello lucky people are born on January 1st or December 12th or July 7th ... LOL
Show threadChancerubbageFeb 28

@rmondello

Just imagine if all three numbers were under 12.

Show thread2¢Feb 28
@rmondello born January 1 here.
Show threadMitchFeb 28
@rmondello Did you sky couch? We did a week ago and it was so, so worth it. Auckland is lovely, btw!
Show threadNekodojoMar 1
@rmondello
MM-DD-YYYY is a middle-endian numbering system
Show threadBassanoMar 2

@rmondello I’m in an International team with less than half based in the U.S. but we all work for the same U.S. company

We’ve convinced the leaders to use 02-Mar-26 format, everybody gets it now