Usually I have to save up a few weeks' worth of error'ds to get five of a kind, but this week we got a rash of funky date entries! I guess we were due.

First up Tim R. reminding us here that "Dates are difficult! ...but when the entire purpose of your web site is to convert the time to different time zones, I'm not inclined to give you much slack for being one hour out."

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And an anonymous reader who just doesn't trust big tech. "In my calendar I have a monthly reminder to clear my data MS data manually. Now you know why, although I don't expect this will come as a surprise to anyone." Note the date on the lower right of the screenshot.

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"June has 30 days, so 31 was not accepted," repeats Daniel D. incredulously. "I needed to calculate day difference between two dates. So I entered June 30 (as shown) only to get this error message. Now - should I trust that calculator to calculate date differences, what you say?"

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Daniel D. went on to share with us a couple of images from "A well-known e-commerce website in Central Europe that allows you to filter by battery life! Only it randomly switches to seconds." Yes, randomly. See the second image too.

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And finally this week, Marc Würth identified a novel Network Solutions Domain History Date Format(TM) "In other places, they displayed dates formatted as "01/13/2025", for example. I guess, instead of using actual ISO 8601, they just flipped the order and replaced the slashes with dashes."

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