Critical and Significant Dates
Dr J R Stockton
# 2???-??-?? ??? - Introduction of the Euro in the UK ???
# 2010-01-01 Fri - Y2.01K. There will be some who have coded only for
Years 200#
# 2010-01-01 Fri - Sorting YYMMDD decade-reversed covers 1990-2009 only
# 2010-01-01 Fri - Reported ANSI C library overflow. Very dubious. RSVP
if you can explain it
# 2010/03/22 Sun - Orthodox (Julian) Easter Sunday is on the earliest
possible date (2010-04-04)
# 2010-12-25 Sat - CMJD 55555
# 2011-09-14 Wed - @01:46:39 UTC less leap seconds, GPS 999999999
seconds
# 2011-11-11 Fri - Seen as a "marker" date - cf. 1999-09-09. Contains
11/11/11 11:11:11
# 2012 -- -- --- - Like 2028, but for Mon..Sun weeks; contains 54
calendar weeks or parts thereof. Also 1984, 2040, ..
# 2012-02-29 Wed - "Leap Day"
# 2012-07-13 Fri - UNIX time_t $50000000 at 11:01:20 UTC
# 2012-12-21 Fri - Alleged end of World, Mayan Calendar (Long Count
13.0.0.0.0). Might be December 2023; opinions differ
# 2012-12-31 Mon - 2012-366 - cf. 1996-366
# 2013-01-21 Mon - Possible POTUS change - noon EST
# 2015-09-05 Sat - Apollo/HP 32-bit rollover Note 1
# 2015-09-09 Wed - QEII = QV, previous longest-regnant in this country
# 2019-01-01 Tue - First probable confusibility by value of the first
two digits of the date between YY and YYYY forms
# 2019-03-01 Fri - Until 2100-03-01, last day for which certain
implementations of Zeller's Congruence have negative-mod-7 error
# 2019-03-24 Sun - On proposed Aleppo rules, first Easter date differing
from Gregorian (2019-04-21) - see Note 23
# 2019-04-07 Sun - Second GPS week rollover just before today, UTC
# 2019-06-06 Thu - MUMPS day 2^16
# 2019-12-30 Mon - VBScript, as 2007-12-31
# 2019-12-31 Tue - YY-date limit of Microsoft Excel 95. MS NT 4.0 fails
after today if the RTC Century byte is "19"? Windows NT boot windows
into 1920-2019?
Changes?
<URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/critdate.htm>
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Dates - miscdate.htm estrdate.htm js-dates.htm pas-time.htm critdate.htm etc.
Bradley K. Sherman
> ...
># 2012-12-21 Fri - Alleged end of World, Mayan Calendar (Long Count
You should then list
2011-05-21 Sat - Alleged end of World, Harold Camping, Family Radio
Source:
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/BA8V1AV589.DTL>
There will be more people believing in the latter than the former
(in the USA), J.R., Family Radio is more widespread than one might
think at first take.
--bks