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by Someone 4276 days ago
Are there countries that use slashes for d/m/y?

What surprised me was "1-2-2014":

  From Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 1:02:00 +0000 (UTC)
  to Wednesday, 1 January 2014 at 0:00:00 +0000 (UTC)
On top of the "where did it get those timestamps from", time flows backwards in that interval.
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> Are there countries that use slashes for d/m/y?

Oh yes, loads of them. Lots more than use m/d/y anyway. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

Canada looks the most hellish, eg: "Immigration Canada Stamps use DD/MM/YYYY and Canada Customs Stamps use MM/DD/YYYY." eek!