[schoen]

This is probably a nonstandard variant of European date order, yielding YYYY-DD-MM.

Usually when the year goes first or when there are hyphens as delimiters, it's an ISO 8601-style date (YYYY-MM-DD). However, Europeans often write DD/MM in other contexts, so the habit could transfer over when writing the year first, even though there's no standardized format that does this.

[ISV_Damocles]

Well, no, because it's not December yet. Pretty sure it's just a typo on the ISO date format.

[schoen]

Oh, I missed a very important part of what people found surprising about these dates!

[danuker]

For all we know, the author knows the last update date in advance (:

[janzer]

A one character typo seems more likely, than a non-standard date format for two dates in the future being used as timestamps.

[stevefan1999]

Yep. It should be 11 not 14. I'm pretty sure it is because I did this often with keypad which 1 and 4 is vertically neighbored

[naniwaduni]

More likely that the intended change was 2022-11-12 -> 2022-11-14, but edited the 11 instead of the 12.

[selcuka]

> Europeans often write DD/MM in other contexts

Correction: Every country except the US (not counting the ones that use YYYY/DD/MM, such as Japan).

[lifthrasiir]

> Every country except the US (not counting the ones that use YYYY/DD/MM, such as Japan).

What? Japanese dates are always year-month-day, with slightly different separators. More generally the date notation tends to strongly reflect how it is spoken (e.g. "1st January 2023" becomes "1/1/2023") and there are enough countries where you never put day before month.

[selcuka]

> Japanese dates are always year-month-day

Ugh, of course. That's a typo.

> the date notation tends to strongly reflect how it is spoken

Why does it differ between English speaking countries, then?

[lifthrasiir]

> Why does it differ between English speaking countries, then?

Because they speak differently? I would expect "November 17, 2022" spoken as "November seventeenth, twenty twenty-two" vs. "17 Nov 2022" as "seventeenth of November, twenty twenty-two". Wikipedia [1] does say that the latter DMY form recently arose possibly in order to resolve ambiguities and the spoken form is less common, but I expect it to be more frequently spoken after enough years of usage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_...

[avgcorrection]

Ah, the Europeans and the slip-ups we imagine they commit using date formats we haven’t seen... before realizing that it’s not December yet.