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02 Nov 11 - 02:33 AM (#3248944) Subject: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: BK Lick In case you haven't noticed, today is 11.02.2011. 'Course if you throw in the time, twice on each of six dates this year 11:02.mm.dd.2011 will be palindromic too. I would have posted this here but that thread is closed. —BK |
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02 Nov 11 - 03:49 AM (#3248950) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: Dave the Gnome Doesn't quite work in Europe - But we get the picture :-) I can still remember the first 'Beano' comic of 1961 having a 'same upside down' theme! Another interesting date coming up is Armistice Day - 11.11.11 - I wonder if the minutes silece will be marked at 11:11 instead of 11:00? DtG |
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02 Nov 11 - 05:20 AM (#3248968) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: MGM·Lion Mad Magazine had an upside-down issue in 1961 also ~ pointing out that it was the first upside-down year since 1881, and would be the last till 8008. ~Michael~ |
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02 Nov 11 - 05:54 AM (#3248981) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: Bonzo3legs Why the world cannot use the standard format of 2011-11-02 (yyyy-mm-dd) I do not know??? |
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02 Nov 11 - 11:47 AM (#3249135) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: Newport Boy For the first time ever, I agree with Bonzo! Ther are 2 logical formats - DMY or YMD and the latter is more suited to mechanical sorting and should therefore be the standard. I must confess to still using DMY, and misread MDY. (911 to me is in a week's time - or it's a Porsche.) For international use I always use 02NOV11 to avoid confusion. Not all computer apps can cope with this. Phil |
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02 Nov 11 - 11:54 AM (#3249140) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: BTNG It only works in North America...the way the numbers are arranged and all that....nice try though |
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02 Nov 11 - 11:59 AM (#3249142) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: BTNG Why the world cannot use the standard format of 2011-11-02 (yyyy-mm-dd) I do not know??? hardly standard if the world , apart from North America, doesn't use it...the world is not North America and North America is not the world, so get over it! |
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02 Nov 11 - 12:24 PM (#3249157) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: Dave the Gnome yyyy-mm-dd is not the North American Standard but it is a very good idea in computer terms - It means that any date sort is done by most to least significant. The opening poster did put the order as mm-dd-yyyy which is the North American civilian venacular standard. While I would not expect everyone to know that I would not expect anyone to become upset over it either :-) In this age of boundaries being negated by the WWW I would have thought a standard dat3 format would have been a good idea! Cheers DtG |
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02 Nov 11 - 02:00 PM (#3249211) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: Nigel Parsons Mad Magazine had an upside-down issue in 1961 also ~ pointing out that it was the first upside-down year since 1881, and would be the last till 8008. Except, of course for 6009, 6119, 6699, 6889, 6969, and possibly others! |
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02 Nov 11 - 02:28 PM (#3249224) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: MGM·Lion Thanks, Nigel: I had recalled their point but go the year wrong. It was 6009. ~M~ |
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02 Nov 11 - 03:20 PM (#3249270) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: Deckman I have a "RADAR" one dollar (american) bill. It's called "radar" as the serial number reads the same backwards and forwards. These are quite rare ... just like me! bob(deckman)nelson |
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02 Nov 11 - 03:34 PM (#3249278) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: Bill D I use the date format I grew up with, and it feels 'right' to list it as Nov. 11. In speech, I never say "eleven November", but rather, November the eleventh. On my checks (not 'cheques') I abbreviate MM/DD/YY , because most here do it that way. I have never had a problem sorting by date on my computer, because programs can be set to recognize whatever system one wishes.(My computer time display has options for all possible displays, including spelling out the month, abbreviating it, or all numerical in any order.) But...on Nov. 11, at 11 minutes and 11 seconds after 11AM. ALL our digital displays will read 11:11:11 11/11/11, so we can agree, however briefly. |
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02 Nov 11 - 03:37 PM (#3249280) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: Bill D (Since there are only 12 months, this will be last time ever that all the numbers in a display will be the same.) |
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02 Nov 11 - 03:46 PM (#3249286) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: Bill D I don't suppose anyone cared on 11/11/1111 |
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02 Nov 11 - 03:59 PM (#3249292) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: Dave the Gnome Since there are only 12 months, this will be last time ever that all the numbers in a display will be the same. I don't this so Bill, unless I have misunderstood your comment? - Provided we leave off the century (as you have) were are going to have 12:12:12 12/12/12 Next year! Talking of miusunderstandings, I just remembered how daft we were when young BTW - Me and my mate Mike, out for a pint of Joseph Holts (Local Manchester, UK) one night. When someone told us that the lager was palindromic we assumed it must be something good and proceded to get sozzled on 'Regal Lager'. Not sure if the misunderstanding was due to being 17 or , more likely, due to the adverse effect of a few pints of bitter first :-) Cheers DtG |
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02 Nov 11 - 04:00 PM (#3249293) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: Dave the Gnome Ahhhh - Just realised what you meant as well, Bill - We will get all the 12s next year but it will not be palindromic! Yes? Sorry about that. DtG |
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02 Nov 11 - 04:21 PM (#3249303) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: open mike it seems some have said that the world might end on 12-21-2012 so we may get to see the next numeric 12;12:12, ON 12-12-12 JUST BEFORE THE END OF ALL TIME...if those predicitions come true. |
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02 Nov 11 - 05:40 PM (#3249361) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: Bill D right... 12/12/12 next year. Time can't end in 2012, though... I have promises to keep in 2020 |
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02 Nov 11 - 06:37 PM (#3249399) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: BK Lick (Since there are only 12 months, this will be last time ever that all the numbers in a display will be the same.) Nah, t'will happen every hundred years till the end of time or till the end of the world, whichever comes first. |
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02 Nov 11 - 06:44 PM (#3249402) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: MGM·Lion DtG ~ Not only will the 12s not be palindromic; they will not consist of only one repeated digit. Surely not true, tho, as Bill said, will never happen again: surely will happen again on 11 Nov 2111 --- 2211: and on the 11.11.11 year of every century. ~M~ |
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02 Nov 11 - 10:19 PM (#3249472) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: Bill D Hummmppfff!! I shall stay awake to see if that happens! I will only be 170......... (sheesh... it is SO easy to toss off fake facts!) |
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03 Nov 11 - 09:51 AM (#3249647) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: GUEST, Sminky hardly standard if the world , apart from North America, doesn't use it...the world is not North America and North America is not the world, so get over it! Actually yy-mm-dd is the standard date format in China and Japan - so that's a quarter of the world's population for a start. |
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11 Nov 11 - 06:15 AM (#3254873) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: MGM·Lion Copied, a few moments late, from my Nice #s thread:- YAY ~~~ it sez on my desktop 11:11 11/11/11 ~ wy ay hay! ~ yesssss! ~ wowie! ~ G O T C H A !!! Now for the next 100 years... |
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11 Nov 11 - 10:30 AM (#3254954) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: Bill D hmmm...mine says 11:11:11 10 30 57 40 minutes to go. |
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11 Nov 11 - 01:50 PM (#3255100) Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day! From: Don Firth Moving across the country. Here on the West Coast, my watch (synchonized with WWV) now reads 10:49:30. Jus' waitin'. . . . Don Firth |