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That format near the cat's tail should have used hue to differentiate year/month/day...

You know, I used to think ISO 8601 was just a boring technical standard for writing dates. But now I see it’s clearly the first step in a grand master plan! First, they make us write the year first, then the month, then the day-suddenly, our beloved 17.05.2025 turns into 2025-05-17. My birthday now looks like a WiFi password, and my calendar feels like a math equation.

But it doesn’t stop there. Today it’s the date format, tomorrow we’ll all be reading from right to left, and before you know it, our keyboards will be rearranged so QWERTY is replaced with mysterious squiggles and dots. Imagine the panic:

“First they came for our dates, then they came for our keyboards!”

At this rate, I’ll be drinking mint tea instead of coffee, my local kebab shop will start offering lutefisk shawarma, and Siri will only answer to “Inshallah.” The right-wing tabloids will have a field day:

“Western Civilization in Peril: Our Months and Days Held Hostage!”

But let’s be honest-if the worst thing that happens is we finally all agree on how to write today’s date, maybe world peace isn’t so far off. Until then, I’ll be over here, clutching my calendar and practicing my right-to-left reading skills… just in case.

(Don’t worry,this was just a joke! No offense intended-unless you’re a die-hard fan of confusing date formats, in which case, may the ISO be ever in your favor!)

Peace!

As a Hungarian, I approve.

Is there an ISO standard for how to say, "I don't agree with a very specific aspect of your politics, or a specific statement one of your political heroes made, for a very specific reason, but I'm not declaring myself at the extreme horrible kitten-eating end of whatever political spectrum you live in."

Nothing irritates me more than the "01-May-25", "DD-Mon-YY" i.e. the way Oracle databases format dates by default.