Comment by verdverm
8 hours ago
420 is a stoner number, stoners lol a lot, thought of Elmo's failed joint smoking on JRE before I stopped watching
...but then other commenters reminded me there is another thing on the same date, which might have been more the actual troll at Elmo to get him all worked up
Well yes, if France24 was using "20 April 2026" as we write here, there would be no misunderstanding.
I believe people are looking too much into 20 April → 4/20 → 420
I believe the French format the date 20/4 ... and the time 16 h 20
April 20th most definitely is international stoners day. And I like what the French have done here!
I assume in France international stoners' day falls on the 4th of Duodevigintiber.
Thanks for the cultural perspective / reminder, yes that is definitely an American automatic translation