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Public Service Announcement:
Our different ways of writing dates as numbers can lead to online confusion. That's why in 1988 ISO set a global standard numeric date format.
This is *the* correct way to write numeric dates:
2013-02-27
The following formats are therefore discouraged:
02
27
2013 02
27
13 27
02
2013 27
02
13
20130227 2013.02.27 27.02.13 27-02-13
27.2.13 2013.CC.27 (27
2)-13 2013.158904109
MMXII-II-XXVII MMXII(LVII
CCCLXV) 1330300800 [[this is the UNIX time for *2012*-02-27, Randall]]
((3+3)x(111+1)-1)x3
3-1
.^3 [the numbers 2013, 02, and 27 written overlapping each other] [a black, hissing cat with 2-27-13 written on it]
10
11011
1101 02
27
20
13
[[the following is the last entry]]
2 3 1 4
0 1 2 3 7
5 67 8
{{Title text: ISO 8601 was published on 06
05
88 and most recently amended on 12
01
04.}}
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