A Nigerian politician who told supporters that his youthful appearance was a result of dwarfism has resigned amid sensational claims that he is actually a 16-year-old boy
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
Why isn’t there a year on any of those dates?
Date of birth: 27th of August 2010
Date of issue: 16th of April 2024
Date of expiry: 15th of April 2029
Passports really should be using four digit years.
Just in case there any kilogenerians?
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…
…not to mention how confusing this would be for Benjamin Button
Just in case anyone reading it might be unsure of the regional date format of …
*checks passport*
Nigeria.
Isn’t that the standard date format of all passports?
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.
God that’s a confusing format, and I know both languages
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