The Next Three Days are the x86 Days 589
Pinky wrote in to note that "Today, tomorrow and the next day are the only days we'll get dates like this:
2/8/6
3/8/6
4/8/6
like the x86 computers :-)" And yes folks, in the August news cycle vortex, even this strikes my fancy. In recent years we've seen numerical giants like 3/1/4, 6/6/6 and 1/2/3, but now really, what do any of us have to look forward to? Is our future dull and meaningless without cool numbers in dates? Oh the humanity of it all ...
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:4, Interesting)
Ok...guess it is early...I was wondering what the hell planet these posts were from...
I looked at the date on my calendar and on my computer desktop, and it said 08/02/06...cobwebs cleared and I remembered that in other places, they switch the day and month around.
Just curious...how many places do it d/m/y vs. m/d/y. I'd never seen the d/m/y thing till a couple of years ago....
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The Best Day Already Was... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Next Palindrome Day... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:3, Interesting)
I wonder if this might be similar to how we speak the dates differently. 22nd is the day...and the month is synonymous to the descriptive part of the date?
Sounds strange, but, was just trying to figure out why the difference. In Europe, the English speaking nations are close together with nations with other languages...that structure their languages as mentioned above, whereas in the US, well, we're pretty much to ourselves, and wouldn't have the influence of foreign languages...
Of course...that situation is starting to change...si
Re:SORRY! (Score:3, Interesting)
Close, but it doesn't sort alphabetically, and the / character has a double meaning on Unix systems and in URLs. 2006-08-02 is better, with the added bonus that it's part of the ISO standard.
Of course, it's harder to get interesting date numbers when you've got 8 digits to work with, two of them can't take many values and two or three more only change values very infrequently. 2011-11-02 20:11:11.02 is coming up, I guess.
Re:Except.. (Score:2, Interesting)
What about time for pi ? (Score:5, Interesting)
Mmmmmm.... pi...
See, there's still stuff to look forward to!
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:2, Interesting)
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Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:4, Interesting)
Nope, in the US, if you asked what time it was, you would most likely get the answer "three-twenty".
Occasionally you'll get it the way you mentioned (twenty after three), but, most of the time I hear it hour-minute.
And that raises a couple of interesting points.