What does number after apostrophe mean on a photo?

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Sometime I see photos on the Internet where some number inscripted, like on the image below.
I would say that it's a day/month/year, but I doubt, particularly about the last one, because photos I saw unlikely from the year denoted by the number.
(Also not sure if it's used on digital or film photos?)

LightBender · Accepted Answer

It is day/month/year.
It is not uncommon though for the date to be incorrectly set in camera (even today, a shocking number of images are shot in 1970 as 1970-01-01T00:00:00 is the epoch of the time system most computers use). Some cameras will reset to a more recent date by default, but the same problem exists.
The date shown in your example is 26 June, 1998.

Sherwood Botsford · Answer

The meaning is camera dependent, and even setting dependent.  My Nikon 8008 film camera I could choose

YY DD MM
MM DD YY
DD MM YY
DD HH:MM

and I think a few others. (Frame number on the current roll? 24hr time?) It got confusing enough, as I used different ones at different times, that I would scrawl the format on a sheet of paper and start a project with a snap of that sheet of paper.
In your case it looks like Day month year.

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