I can't be the only one who sees a date, and immediately begins to add up the digits for numerological significance, or adjust by +/- 13 days for Julian/Gregorian calendar, or see what an offset of "two days ahead of schedule" might bring.
Not really looking at the dates that much. It's both the headline and the date that catches my eye.
Truth to be told is that I tend to glance over a lot of numbers (think thousands) during the work day. When it's like that, the numbers simply do not register the same way for me.
Everybody has his own way to catch on to the God's plan.