date-2
Original: date-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with red hair: God, I hate how Americans write down dates.
Woman: Right? Month before day?! Bah! You want to go from the most to least specific time interval!
Panel 2:
Woman (off-panel): Exactly!
Man with red hair: That's why I prefer D2D1/M2M1 Y4Y3/Y2Y1 notation.
Panel 3:
Woman: What?
Man with red hair: Second digit of the day, first digit of the day, second digit of the month, first digit of the month, fourth digit of the year, and so on.
Panel 4:
Man with red hair (arms spread wide): By the way, it's 10/10/52/02. Happy New Year!
Woman: Stop. No—
Votey:
(If you want to mess with someone, insist the American system is optimized for conveying the likely weather as quickly as possible)
Man with red hair: God, I hate how Americans write down dates.
Woman: Right? Month before day?! Bah! You want to go from the most to least specific time interval!
Panel 2:
Woman (off-panel): Exactly!
Man with red hair: That's why I prefer D2D1/M2M1 Y4Y3/Y2Y1 notation.
Panel 3:
Woman: What?
Man with red hair: Second digit of the day, first digit of the day, second digit of the month, first digit of the month, fourth digit of the year, and so on.
Panel 4:
Man with red hair (arms spread wide): By the way, it's 10/10/52/02. Happy New Year!
Woman: Stop. No—
Votey:
(If you want to mess with someone, insist the American system is optimized for conveying the likely weather as quickly as possible)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. A man with red hair and a woman complain about how Americans write dates. Panel 1: The man says "God, I hate how Americans write down dates." The woman agrees: "Right? Month before day?! Bah! You want to go from the most to least specific time interval!" Panel 2: The woman says "Exactly!" and the man replies, "That's why I prefer D2D1/M2M1 Y4Y3/Y2Y1 notation." Panel 3: The woman, confused, says "What?" The man explains: "Second digit of the day, first digit of the day, second digit of the month, first digit of the month, fourth digit of the year, and so on." Panel 4: The man spreads his arms wide and announces, "By the way, it's 10/10/52/02. Happy New Year!" The woman, dismayed, says "Stop. No—". The joke is his absurd digit-scrambling notation is even worse than the formats he criticized. Votey (aftercomic): handwritten text reads "(If you want to mess with someone, insist the American system is optimized for conveying the likely weather as quickly as possible)."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.