Bad day for date formats

Thursday 5 May 2005 — This is more than 20 years old. Be careful.

My task at work for today involves making date formats localizable, and getting our use of date formats more consistent. I realized that today is a very bad day to be doing this work, because it is 05/05/05. If I transpose two of the components by accident, how would I know?

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Bill Mill 2:34 PM on 5 May 2005
Sounds like an excuse to take the afternoon off to me. I give you permission.
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Eric Burnett 6:45 PM on 5 May 2005
Take an afternoon off? Nonsense. You should do it all blind, to prove how l33t you are.

Or alternatively, change the date on your testing computer ;).

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