BS: Today's date (palindrome)

Subject: Today's date (triple palindrome)
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 07:59 AM

This won't make any sense to Americans (who put the day and month the wrong way round) but anyway... At two minutes past eight this evening, the time and date will be:

20:02.20.02.2002

The last time something similarly palindromic happened was nearly 900 years ago: 11 minutes past 11am on November 11 1111.

The next time all three elements of time, date and year will be palindromic will be 110 years from now: at 12 minutes past nine on the evening of December 21 2112.

After that, we'll have to wait nearly 1000 years until the next triple palindromic date on March 30 3003

I expect that I'll be dead by then...

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 08:08 AM

I heard about this, some crazy woman on the radio said the world might end, I hope not, I have just bought a new mandolin.

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: GUEST,Jeremie
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 08:12 AM

There will be a lot of litterature events, here in France. What about your countries ?

Jeremie

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 08:19 AM

Don't worry John, the world won't end.

Historians seem to concer that 11/11/1111 was a fairly ordinary day.

Nothing significant happened at 11:11

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 08:34 AM

Well, if someone was born or died at that time, it was a significant event for them!

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 08:40 AM

GUEST:

As no one can remember being born, and very few are able to remember their exact time of death, I'd have to say that your comments are a little stupid.

All this thread is trying to do is to inform, anyone who is interested, about a mathematical oddity.

Nothing more.

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 08:49 AM

And your bowels are irritable!

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 09:04 AM

No shit!

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 09:04 AM

1961 was a good year. Same upside down! And I was only 8 so it was better still:-)

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 09:08 AM

its 14.06 on 20.02.02 and ive realised i'm missing the archers while reading this baloney

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 09:27 AM

Time for Tomorrow is already running on this subject.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 09:29 AM

Thanks, Susan

Greg, go to hell

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 09:33 AM

Greg, you fool, Brian is back in Siobahns knickers, and Janet has told the church committee she's leaving.

Skipjack

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 09:36 AM

God I hate this place sometimes.

'In jokes' are fine with 'in crowds'

They are obnoquious elsewhere (like here)

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: Blackcatter
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 09:40 AM

What the hell is wrong with you GUEST? Are you beginning to slum in the nice and quiet BS threads to attack people? Get a life. Nothing said above was "stupid" nor deserving of telling someone to "go to hell."

You're not even pitiful.

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 09:53 AM

Blackcatter,

Whilst I appreciate the fact that not everyone is interested in mathematical or numerical oddities; I found the fact that '"

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: Homeless
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 10:13 AM

Maybe I'm missing something here, but can someone tell me how "the next triple palindromic date on March 30 3003" is going to work? All the clocks I've ever seen have a maximum of 24 hours on them, so I don't understand how there will be a time of 30:03

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 10:14 AM

oooops. no thanks, GUEST, i dont think i'll go to hell, or hopefully not in the immediate future. actually,old chap, i'm very interested in palindromic dates, mathematical curiosities etc etc, which is why i was reading the thread in the first place. i just mildly pointed out that this diversion was distracting me from morepressing business, viz finding out what tim and siobhan are up to. and many thanks to skipjack KB for filling me in. so janet's still got the hots for tim and doing a runner? i always thought this lady vicar malarkey would end in tears

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: Blackcatter
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 10:29 AM

Oh yeah GUEST - that clears it all up.

If you are trying to link to Greg's previous messages - I have better things to do that read them. Still doesn't say much for your earlier "stupid" comment either.

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: Wolfgang
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 10:50 AM

GUEST's 20-Feb-02 - 09:53 AM truncated post reconstructed from the view source:

Blackcatter,

Whilst I appreciate the fact that not everyone is interested in mathematical or numerical oddities I found the fact that greg stephens who joined a week ago, telling me that my post was baloney, somewhat annoying. No doubt I over-reacted. For that I am sorry. (Expecting to get snearing remarks along the lines of: Well, at least he joined.)

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 12:55 PM

just as an aside about American " putting the day and month the wrong way round"

When speaking aloud, how do you say the date? We silly Americans 'tend' to say "February twentieth" or "March the seventeenth" (the Fourth of July is a common exception..not sure why)...I suppose if you usually SAY "today is fourteen April", then writing the date 14/04/02 makes a certain amount of sense.

Fortunately, most computer software allows us to compose the date in any format we like.

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: Banjer
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 03:05 PM

In military lingo (or what is accepted as universal time and date) 'Twenty February' would be used. At least it was when I was in the service and I have heard military oriented persons around here use that format as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 03:57 PM

Just thought but has anyone ever seen a palindrome with the word palindrome in it?

As McArthur said "I will be back"

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 04:49 PM

My favourite word-palindrome is in Latin:
Ingirum imus nocte et consumimur igni
It means "we circle in the night and are consumed by flame"

(no pun intended!)

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 04:53 PM

And here I was, attempting to say something slightly nteresting (if not particularly important)

Guess what?

It turns into a fight

And there are endless discussions about joining this forum

Go figure

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: Blackcatter
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 11:32 PM

The interesting thing is that near the beginning, a GUEST slammed a GUEST. That was my issue.

The GUEST that said: "Well, if someone was born or died at that time, it was a significant event for them!" Didn't seem to be an insult to me - I could be wrong. Maybe if GUEST had added a ":)" after it all would have been fine.

Anyway, my favorite palindrome is:

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.

Boom, boom - out go the lights....

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 21 Feb 02 - 08:08 AM

After reading a CAMRA review of a local pub my mate Mike and I went along to try the locally (Manchester, UK) brewed lager. We didn't think much of it and went back onto the bitter (Holts) which we knew we did like.

It was years later that we discovered that palindromic didn't mean it would get us out of our heads and that it was the only adjective for Regal Lager which wouldn't get the reviewer sued!!!

I didn't notice the world move last night btw - did you darling? Or should it be the world end???

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Feb 02 - 08:34 AM

Nice one, Blackcatter.

How about:

"Lapses? Order red roses, pal."

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 21 Feb 02 - 11:36 AM

That's a belter, Bonnie. Thanks for posting. I still laugh fit to bust at 'Ceaser had some jam for tea, Pompey had a rat'.

Subject: RE: BS: Today's date (palindrome)
From: SharonA
Date: 21 Feb 02 - 12:10 PM

John in Hull says, "Some crazy woman on the radio said the world might end" at 20:02 on 20.02, 2002

Crazy is right. How did she figure it was going to happen – one time zone at a time? I can just hear the radio commentary: "Well, folks, it's two minutes past five o'clock in the afternoon here in Los Angeles, and we just got word in that the entire Eastern Standard Time zone is history, along with everything east of it all the way out to the International Date Line. That's right: if you're still working on your taxes, you can stop now 'cause there's nowhere to send the forms to anymore! The countdown here is three hours till showtime, so enjoy yourselves while you can!"

...Not to mention the fact that the calendar date is arbitrary in the first place! Sheesh. If only I had a nickel for every time the world was going to end!