• emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 days ago

          I mean if you’re only using 2 digits then 1926 is gonna read the same as 2026, and there’s lots of people over 100 years old…

        • Redjard@reddthat.com
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          2 days ago

          Just in case anyone reading it might be unsure of the regional date format of …
          *checks passport*
          Nigeria.

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              1 day ago

              It would seem so, til.

              There are numeric and alphabetic months, and 2 and 4 digit years, but seems to be dmy consistently.

              So I suppose it’s only confusing to people who don’t know the secret rule of passports. Or if you have a 110 year old with dwarfism who looks 10.

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        The point is to remove day/month ambiguity that would be present in numerals. Also, that French is always present, c’est toujours très important. The machine readable one is YYMMDD or YYYYMMDD