A mate at school got 2% in his latin exam. On the blank piece of paper he wrote, Latin is dead, as dead as dead can be. It killed off all the Romans and now it's killing me. He promptly got up and walked out, forever to achieve legend status.

Start today's expert

easy going so far

ding, second guess

Done seems easy at 1st, then had to guess my way to finish.

The iso standard is to write year-month-day. All programmers love this because it will allow a correct sort without problems.

2020-10-04; this puzzle has another coloring argument, not easy to find. g/ng

start

done

Late to the conversation, but I'm an adherent of yyyy/mo/day. I name all my files that way and it's so easy to sort by date for court filings. Also love metric, which I learned in my years in Canada. Makes *so* much sense!

Happy 2020-X-IV. I was so excited about converting to metric years ago. My state had made road signs but alas some guy from the south objected to a logical system.

2020-10-04 - first guess - also a metric fan, so logical - only the US, Liberia and Myanmar have not seen the light...yet...why not i wonder ? - HAGD all ☺

One-guess-Expert ... fun :)

I've almost got it. But, alas...2.54 cm. is as good as 1609m.

OTOH, 1609m and 1609m to go before I sleep.

It's not easy. You should try walking 1609m in my shoes.

OK,OK, I'm gonna shut up.

Dave Barry said, "If you disagree with someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, if they get mad you are a mile away and you have their shoes."

A forcing pair in the lower right quad cracks it