Ebay's version of DPD tracking cheerfully tells me
It's on its way.
Dispatched Step 1 - Completed - Dispatched Thu 2 Jan ... Step 4 - Upcoming - Estimated delivery Sun 1 Mar
DPD tells me it'll be delivered "Friday". Not which Friday, though.
It occurred to me today that the usual new year mistake of dating a cheque with the previous year is now unlikely to occur.
Owain
Typical for an Ebay seller sending from China via a container load by ship. Chinese sellers typically lie about delivery dates being in days rather than weeks.
March? Where is it coming from Mars? Brian
This is a genuine seller in Herts.
Owain
The 1s March/3rd Jan confusion sounds like an unexpected european or American date parsing failure.
You might be right on that!
Owain
I was thinking that as I've had a similar problems using google sheets even though I've set UK english when I type a UK date in an american calnader comes up and the cell defaults to US rather than UK date format. Think I've solved it by selecting the cells them setting the date format.
Which is why experienced developers know to use Julian format.
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