Never wondered why the camera app in your phone also uses this convention for filenames?

What convention? Is the problem here that you didn't realise this claimed to have been written either in December 2026 (ie months in our future) or, if you're willing to stomach a weird YYYY-DD-MM formatting - a mythical thirteenth month of the year?

The actual article was, eventually, updated to give a real date: Last updated on 2026-02-16

But originally it said 2026-12-13 and that's why I commented.

I am an idiot.

I did not notice the date was in the future