BS: Have a palindromic day!

Subject: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: BK Lick
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 02:33 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 03:49 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 05:20 AM

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~

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 05:54 AM

Why the world cannot use the standard format of 2011-11-02 (yyyy-mm-dd) I do not know???

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: Newport Boy
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 11:47 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: BTNG
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 11:54 AM

It only works in North America...the way the numbers are arranged and all that....nice try though

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: BTNG
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 11:59 AM

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!

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 12:24 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 02:00 PM

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!

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 02:28 PM

Thanks, Nigel: I had recalled their point but go the year wrong. It was 6009.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: Deckman
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 03:20 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 03:34 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 03:37 PM

(Since there are only 12 months, this will be last time ever that all the numbers in a display will be the same.)

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 03:46 PM

I don't suppose anyone cared on 11/11/1111

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 03:59 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 04:00 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: open mike
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 04:21 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 05:40 PM

right... 12/12/12 next year. Time can't end in 2012, though... I have promises to keep in 2020

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: BK Lick
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 06:37 PM

(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.

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 06:44 PM

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~

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 10:19 PM

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!)

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: GUEST, Sminky
Date: 03 Nov 11 - 09:51 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 06:15 AM

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...

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 10:30 AM

hmmm...mine says 11:11:11 10 30 57

40 minutes to go.

Subject: RE: BS: Have a palindromic day!
From: Don Firth
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 01:50 PM

Moving across the country. Here on the West Coast, my watch (synchonized with WWV) now reads 10:49:30.

Jus' waitin'. . . .

Don Firth