Happy Palindrome Day
JK Coney
backward - 01022010 (The last time it happened was 10022001 -- October 2,
2001. The time before that was 08311380 -- August 31, 1380) Talk about once
in a blue moon ... and yes, this time it really IS once in a blue moon!
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Larry
news:hhpbiu$14d$1...@news.eternal-september.org:
> Happy Palindrome Day - a date that is exactly the same read forward or
> backward - 01022010 (The last time it happened was 10022001 -- October
> 2, 2001. The time before that was 08311380 -- August 31, 1380) Talk
> about once in a blue moon ... and yes, this time it really IS once in
> a blue moon!
>
>
How many iphone apps are in the app store to detect, document and display
this phenomenon?
How much does the app store want for the most expensive one?....(c;]
How graphical is it?
Mike
> Happy Palindrome Day - a date that is exactly the same read forward or
> backward - 01022010 (The last time it happened was 10022001 -- October 2,
> 2001. The time before that was 08311380 -- August 31, 1380) Talk about once
> in a blue moon ... and yes, this time it really IS once in a blue moon!
>
>
FAIL!
It's actually 02012020 which is not a palindrome!
Mike
Mike
02012010 you know what I meant ;-)
Looking forward to 01022010!
Mike.
News
How "intuitive" ?
JK Coney
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Major LOL to the usenet grammar, spelling, and palindrome police....
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Wes Groleau
> Happy Palindrome Day - a date that is exactly the same read forward or
> backward - 01022010 (The last time it happened was 10022001 -- October 2,
> 2001. The time before that was 08311380 -- August 31, 1380) Talk about once
> in a blue moon ... and yes, this time it really IS once in a blue moon!
Sorry, not even the standards-resistant portion
of the USA writes dates that way.
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Wes Groleau
Teacher Tip: Organization
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Your Name
"JK Coney" <jkc...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Happy Palindrome Day - a date that is exactly the same read forward or
> backward - 01022010 (The last time it happened was 10022001 -- October 2,
> 2001. The time before that was 08311380 -- August 31, 1380) Talk about
once
> in a blue moon ... and yes, this time it really IS once in a blue moon!
Except it's not for those of us who actually write the date correctly: 02 /
01 / 2010. :-)
NightStalker
jkc...@verizon.net says...
> Happy Palindrome Day - a date that is exactly the same read forward or
> backward - 01022010 (The last time it happened was 10022001 -- October 2,
> 2001. The time before that was 08311380 -- August 31, 1380) Talk about once
> in a blue moon ... and yes, this time it really IS once in a blue moon!
>
>
>
Not for those in the rest of the world that write the date in dd/mm/yyy
format, like we do here Down Under.... ;)
However, given your interest in numerology, the date of my mother's
death had a numerological quirk: she died on the 19th November, 1999
Now no matter which way you write the date - and we'd write it as
19/11/1999 - it is the LAST date in which every digit is an odd number,
until the 11th November, 3111.
A special day indeed.... ;)
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NightStalker
David
"JK Coney" <jkc...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Happy Palindrome Day - a date that is exactly the same read forward or
> backward - 01022010 (The last time it happened was 10022001 -- October 2,
> 2001. The time before that was 08311380 -- August 31, 1380) Talk about once
> in a blue moon ... and yes, this time it really IS once in a blue moon!
Bit of cheating there mate - it only works out today if you fiddle with
the date format - doesn't really happen til 1st Feb this year 01/02/2010
David
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Mike
psst, dave - I think he's american .....
Mike
Wes Groleau
> psst, dave - I think he's american .....
But not all us Americans use such a ridiculous date format.
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Wes Groleau
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Mike
> Mike wrote:
>> psst, dave - I think he's american .....
>
> But not all us Americans use such a ridiculous date format.
>
Really - that must make things very confusing.
Mike
Todd Allcock
I suppose some Americans spell "color" with a "u" as well, but that would
just make us eccentric. The American convention, right or wrong, (ok,
wrong!) is mm/dd/yyyy, regardless of the individual actions of a few rebels
like Wes! ;)
Wes Groleau
> I suppose some Americans spell "color" with a "u" as well, but that
> would just make us eccentric. The American convention, right or wrong,
> (ok, wrong!) is mm/dd/yyyy, regardless of the individual actions of a
> few rebels like Wes! ;)
If you read the OP, you know that the ridiculous format I refer to
is the one that makes today "01042010"
On the other hand, "few" is inaccurate and "rebel" is arguable.
Date in digits. month in letters, year in four digits, separated by
spaces is the format preferred by most genealogists, the U.S. military,
and anyone else who wants to minimize any risk of misinterpretation.
But I'll gladly accept the label of "eccentric" when I am the sort of
rebel who refuses to put an extra 'e' in "judgment." :-)
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Wes Groleau
You always have time for what you do first.
Your Name
"Wes Groleau" <Grolea...@FreeShell.org> wrote in message
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The problem is that the rest of the world stupidly copies America eventually
anyway. For example, the local version of TV Guide here in New Zealand puts
all their dates backwards. :-(
Mike
It's up to Britain, the US military and the rest of the world to stop
this date fatwa. I say we invade NY and steal all their I <Heart> NY
T-shirts.
Maybe in a few years we can bring democracy to the US as well.
Mike
Your Name
As well as teaching Americans how to write dates properly, you'd also have
to teach them proper spelling and meanings for words, the metric system,
putting th steering wheel on th correct side of the car and driving on the
correct side of the road, etc., etc. ... but first and foremost you'd have
to teach them that America is NOT the entire planet Earth. ;-)
David
Mike <mikelovescham...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Yeh, I know that thanks Mike - just wanted to point out that things are
different in the civilised countries
David
Mike <mikelovescham...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Maybe. But MIke, unlike some others I think the Americans are not as
stupid as they might seem to be. One day, I reckon, they will go
metric, learn to spell, get their date format right, and begin driving
on the correct (LHS) side of the road. Perhaps they will even stop
bombing the shit out of people then wonder why those people dont like
them.
David (just in the mood for good natured stirring)
Mike
One thing at a time, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Mike
Todd Allcock
> unlike some others I think the Americans are not as
> stupid as they might seem to be. One day, I reckon, they will go
> metric,
Why? It's not our fault that you gave us the perfectly fine, if a wee
bit obtuse, English measurement system, then abandoned it when your
European neighbors whined!
You haven't given the Pound Sterling up as willingly, have you? ;)
Jon Ribbens
No, but we did decimalise it!
You could try and get your paper sizes right too. ;-)
Marc Stibane
> Date in digits. month in letters, year in four digits, separated by
> spaces is the format preferred by most genealogists, the U.S. military,
> and anyone else who wants to minimize any risk of misinterpretation.
There's an "international date format" yyyy-mm-dd, which has the
advantage to be alphabetically ascending, so you can put it into
filenames which differ only in the date, sort alphabetically and the
temporal order is right.
The / used in american date format mm/dd/yy is not allowed as filename
letter on UNIX and LINUX, while the . used in european date format
dd.mm.yy might be misinterpreted as suffix separator. And spaces as in
the suggestion above often makes it neccessary to quote filenames to be
able to find out where one name ends and the next one begins. The
international format yyyy-mm-dd has none of these disadvantages, and
probably should be used more often...
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who needs windows and gates?
Your Name
"Marc Stibane" <spamf...@arcor.de> wrote in message
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Except that it makes no real sense since people always say "today is the
23rd October, 1995" (or lazy Americans who insist on saying "today is
October 23rd, 1995" simply to leave out one word).
John McWilliams
> Except that it makes no real sense since people always say "today is the
> 23rd October, 1995"
No, very few people say that. Not even some decade and a half ago did
they say that.
(or lazy Americans who insist on saying "today is
> October 23rd, 1995" simply to leave out one word).
O.K., so I'm not lazy if I use more words?
Written precisely at 2:43:00 PM on Sunday, January the 10th, 2010,
Pacific Standard Time. [UTC, GMT = -8]
--
John McWilliams
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in
the country.
-- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.
Your Name
<jp...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Your Name wrote:
>
> > Except that it makes no real sense since people always say "today is the
> > 23rd October, 1995"
>
> No, very few people say that. Not even some decade and a half ago did
> they say that.
Everbody who speaks proper English does. The fact that America continually
tries to corrupt the language is irrelevant.
John McWilliams
Chauvinism does not make you right.
Most folk will say, "It's the 23rd of October, 2009" or "It's October
23rd, 2009".
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lsmft
NightStalker
says...
>
> Most folk will say, "It's the 23rd of October, 2009" or "It's October
> 23rd, 2009".
>
>
Er - does it really matter? ;)
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NightStalker
John McWilliams
Of course! When someone flat out contradicts one on usenet, it's
incumbent to hammer back the correction.
No? :-)
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Your Name
"NightStalker" <NightS...@somewhere.or.other> wrote in message
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Only to a pedantic moron who simply swapped the word "today" to the word
"it".
To mis-quote Star Wars: Welcome to the Internet, a hive of scum, perverts,
and morons (especially during school holidays). :-(