What time is it, not subscription time?

Having just wasted some money on the new(er) toy I arrived home to an email warning my CAD subscription was expiring soon . I read it thinking “They send that early, it’s not for months!” until I saw...

Having just wasted some money on the new(er) toy I arrived home to an email warning my CAD subscription was expiring soon. I read it thinking “They send that early, it’s not for months!” until I saw the date: 9th July!

I know time flies, it’s June already, but surely it’s not subscription time? Why hadn’t Outlook or Quicken popped up the reminders I’ve set in them?

Then I remembered, it’s a US date*, 9th September… that’s better, not so soon!

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* New Zealand uses dd/mm/yyyy format