lol, basically telling people

Abbreviating 2020 could lead to our retarded paper-pushers illegally editing your official records. And, of course, that's your responsibility.

I thought they were joking at first or something was really off.

That actually checks out. Took me a second to figure out what they meant.

3/10/18

3/10/19

3/10/2018

Last one is 3/10/20 though or 3/10/2020

2012 - 2016 as well.

If someone does 2/29/2017 they just got themselves caught though. Not going to explain this one fully as I don't want to be responsible for anything myself.