The date at the top of the
slide is ambiguous in three ways.
This is a bad way to generate dates for a
page - it is better to use a name for the
month (or, in some specialized cases, you
may be able to use a four-digit year and
the order year, month then day).
Note also how the expected
separators, leading zeros, etc vary
from culture to culture.
The biggest issue, however, is
not displaying the date correctly, but
recognizing a date supplied by a user
if you haven't adequately signposted
the order or format in which you expect
to receive data.
You
need to make sure that your expectations
are clear if you want to stand any chance
of recognizing what the user is typing
in.
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