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 ...
what about the lucky sevens? (Score:5, Funny)
Life is good living three steps ahead of the taco.
Personally I look forward to the lucky 7's, 7/7/7, a day where CmdrTaco and I can celebrate our slot machine winnings together.
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:2, Insightful)
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In fact, I recall being taught to do it that way in grade 2.
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....
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:4, Interesting)
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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 nati
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:3, Insightful)
Actually, neither m-d-y nor d-m-y are good for that. y-m-d is the simplest way to sort by date when you are naming files, that way they're all sorted by year first, then month, then day. d-m-y makes logical sense, but in america most people say/see august 2nd, 2006... so we get confused when we see 2-8-06.
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:4, Insightful)
YYYYMMDD-HHMM
Also: HH should be military/24-hour time, NOT HHMM(a|p)
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:4, Insightful)
I've been brainwashed in california to use ddMMMyy (eg. 02Aug06) for all my dates. They do that in the international Pharmacuetical/BioTech industry to cut down on this exact confusion.
Which begs the question: is 02Aug06 the 2nd of August 2006 or the 6th of August 2002. Are my pills just expiring or 4 years out of date? Any possible format that leaves ambiguity WILL be misunderstood. Two digit years are an abomination!
And, to reply to a previous poster, do you alphabetize your dictionary by last letter of the word? yyyy-mm-dd is, by systems of ordering that have been around for millenia, the most logical.
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:2, Informative)
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....
Most places follow dd/mm/yy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-MM-YY>. Only places with USA influence follow the mm/dd/yy format. India for example uses dd/mm/yy. And yes, if you did not know this until a couple of years ago, i am shocked. In India, they taught us this when we were kids in school.
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Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, then... congratulations - For the first time in your life, you are correct!
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, what a boring place. What did you guys do for the other 364 days?
Replacing code dates with international dates (Score:3, Insightful)
Sometimes when I am updating some code documents with dates, I will replace the US Y99 dates with international dates,
So:
01/02/03 - code creation
becomes:
2003-01-02 - code creation
2006-08-02 - fixed a bug
International dates are significantly in order, as times are.
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.
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:5, Interesting)
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ISO date vs DoD date (Score:5, Insightful)
You don't say whose military or government. The US DoD, at least, is large enough that there are multiple "standards". I've seen MM/DD/YY (08/02/06) and YYYY-MMM-DD (2006-AUG-02) most often, I think. The ISO date form is YYYY-MM-DD (2006-08-02) or YYYYMMDD (20060802).
Personally, I find the mixed number/letter forms like "2006 AUG 2" and "2 Aug 2006" work best when dealing with other humans who speak the same language. It's unambiguous -- there's only one sane way to interpret it -- and the letter/number distinction stands out more than dashes. For computers and other kinds of filing, though, the ISO form definately wins. It makes sorting so much easier.
Long live the UNIX timestamp (Score:5, Funny)
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:3, Insightful)
YYYY-MM-DD is the best. I keep logs, pics, whatever named like that so a date sort by name is simple.
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:2)
- Lots of European countries.
- Russia
- Japan
- China
- South Korea
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Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:5, Informative)
Here's a list [wikipedia.org] of used date formats in various countries. Looks like Canada has them all. ;)
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:3, Funny)
And it looks like those blaming the USA for the nefarious spread of m/d/y have been shown to be wrong.
Quite obviously, it's the blasted Federated States of Micronesia again, exerting their subtle yet vast power.
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:2)
2 Aug 2006
2006 Aug 2
2006-08-02
The first 2 separate the numbers with letters, making it easier to read, and it's entirely unambiguous, at least to those who can read English.
The last is better for sorting lists, and makes the most sense when you're dealing with a set of information that spans several years, making the year the most prominent.
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:5, Funny)
Basically, everywhere except the USA. You don't get out much do you?
If you do plan on travelling, also note that in the rest of the world we use degrees Celsius for temperature -- 30 degrees is hot, not cold, so pack appropriately. But most surprising of all, not everyone in the world speaks English!
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:4, Insightful)
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I don't see why we can't all just switch to YYYY-mm-dd. You can't confuse it with any existing format. It's logical (they all come in order). It keeps mm/dd/yy's only benefit (as far as I'm concerned; I don't see keeping the year at the back a benefit) by letting months come ahead of days. With AM/PM vs 24 hour, at least there's a valid argument in that people think "five in the afternoon", not "seventeen"; with YYYY-mm-dd there's no such
Re:what about the lucky sevens? (Score:3, Funny)
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But you'll never have 13/3/7! (Score:2)
You would have had it on the 33rd of January or the 3rd of the 13th calendar month... -if- they existed.
It's funny. Laugh. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's funny. Laugh. (Score:2)
Re:It's funny. Laugh. (Score:2)
I personally think that Intel and AMD are missing out on a great marketing ploy. Considering how close the competition is right now, they could gain publicity through some special event for the days.
Re:It's funny. Laugh. (Score:2)
Holy crap! (Score:2, Offtopic)
Re:Holy crap! (Score:2)
If it weren't for those hard-working Middle Easterners busily killing each other, the presses would have to shut down entirely.
Februrary, March and April (Score:3, Insightful)
That all depends on your locale settings - other people had thier x86 days several months back
Saturday (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Saturday (Score:2)
Please excuse the accuracy of this post, I don't actually have all of the core codenames remebered, or the versioning thats part of the joke: who on earth can? In Haiti, the kids knew about pentium IV andthat it cmae out a long time ago so they assume tha we are on Pentium 7 by now. Why would we be stuck on Pentium IV for six years?
Re:Saturday (Score:2, Funny)
Because Intel keeps adding 1 to 4 and getting 4.9999056489, so it isn't quite 5 yet.
I'm a Mac user... (Score:5, Funny)
ISO 8601 Please! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:ISO 8601 Please! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ISO 8601 Please! (Score:2)
Free clue. (Score:2)
A slight oversight it would seem (Score:5, Funny)
Ummm... you mean this century right?
I'm still surprised this made the front page. I mean, I'm a geek, but even I think this is lame.
What about yesterday? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What about yesterday? (Score:4, Informative)
Go eat pie (Score:2)
Some more? (Score:2)
Re:Some more? (Score:2)
Re:Some more? (Score:2)
3/8/6 ? Bah, humbug! (Score:2)
The Best Day Already Was... (Score:5, Interesting)
That's nice. (Score:2)
thank god (Score:2)
8/2/6 Brighton MetroBus (Score:2)
Yes, I realize it has the route number 273 on it, but really it is the 826!
Let's all celebrate the wonders of mass transit!
What about the 586? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What about the 586? (Score:3, Funny)
The problem is that there's no date for 5/8/5.99996546
Date formats (Score:2)
I for one certainly don't say it's 2006, August the 2nd. I'd either say it's 2nd August 2006 or August 2nd 2006...
Oh dear (Score:2, Funny)
d/m/y? (Score:5, Funny)
"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 :-)"
Has Y2K taught you nothing? Using a single digit to store the year? You are among programmers! Hang your head in shame!
Best graduation year ever: 1961 (Score:2)
The usual suspects [wikipedia.org] note that the condition won't happen again until the Year of our Lord 6009 (that is, if man is still alive, if woman can survive... [wikipedia.org]).
Next Palindrome Day... (Score:2, Interesting)
in 31 years... (Score:2)
heh.
March 10th (Score:3, Funny)
So okay, this is news?
Every year March 10th comes around and we don't get a bunch of news posts from Nintendo fans because it's MAR10 day yet again.
It can't be that slow on a Tuesday in August. What is the world coming to?
Donald Becker quote (Score:5, Funny)
What about time for pi ? (Score:5, Interesting)
Mmmmmm.... pi...
See, there's still stuff to look forward to!
Re:Except.. (Score:3, Insightful)
(insert "We don't use dates like that, you insensitive clod" comment here)
Re:Except.. (Score:2, Funny)
This is the obligatory dupe.
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American English speakers might - I don't know anyone who says July 7th (maybe July the 7th though). Anyway, I say "half past six", but I wouldn't write that time down as 1/2 - 6 (or even 30:6).
MM/DD/YYYY as a numeric representation makes no logical sense. DD/MM/YYYY is small/medium/large date units, whereas MM/DD/YYYY is medium/small/large. Who orders things by putting the smallest unit of measurement in the middle? Do you write your time as hh:
Re:Except.. (Score:2)
Every culture has their idiosyncrasies.
Re:Psht! (Score:2)
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss is the way to go.
Re:Psht! (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime [w3.org]
Concur.
Re:Psht! (Score:2)
While I agree with the yyyy, mm & dd order, a real nerd doesn't use path seperators in dates! What kind of date format uses
Psht! Psht! (Score:2)
Todays date is:
114415202
Plus, I think we should all just refer to all dates as a stardates.
Re:Psht! (Score:2)
Unless of course one speaks hungarian (Score:2)
Re:its not the only time (Score:2)
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Re:its not the only time (Score:3, Funny)
Re:e Day (Score:2)
e=2.71828183, so this would have happened long ago, say 2/7/2 or 2/7/18.
Re:SORRY! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:SORRY! (Score:4, Informative)
2006/8/2 is I agree then "best" way to represent a date - The majority of human-use number systems put the least-significant information to the right hand side. This has the bonus that sorting on a computer (mechanical or electrical) is simplified. Systems that include this are HH:MM:SS and good 'ol decimal numbering Hundreds-Tens-Units.
An alternative in the LSB/MSB world is 2/8/2006 - Computers can be (and are) architected to deal with this type of reversal. Humans can deal with the LSB being at the left hand end of the information. This is still "useful" as processing left-to-right and right-to-left are not really that different. I consider this to be "next best" as it retains a certain amount of logic.
The final option is to ignore whether your data has an order or significance, and just jumble it up. How is MM/DD/YYYY differnt to YYYY/DD/MM ? Would you consider YYYY/DD/MM valid or useful? I am afraid that I personally would not, and but the same token consider MM/DD/YYYY to be not-useful. Perhaps we should just switch to MM/YYYY/DD for fun?
I would be seriously interested to know where/why the different system in the USA originated, and by what measure you determine the USA system to be next-best and the European system to be "Fucked up"
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:we will always have 4/20 (Score:2)