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Happy palindrome day either way: 12-02-2021 or 2021-12-02
Enjoy reading today's date from either direction!
Edit: thanks to taneliv for noticing it works both ways! (original post only showed one way)
- taneliv 5y agoEven for people using normal date formats, since 2021-12-02 is, amazingly enough, also today, and is also a palindrome day. Enjoy!
- asplake 5y ago“Normal” meaning I think the US format, the format that confuses a lot of people elsewhere. YYYY-MM—DD is the safest, but in the UK at least we would interpret xx-xx as DD-MM
- celticninja 5y agoBut not if you use 02-12-2021
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- muzani 5y agoPalindrome day is different in different countries, like Mother's Day.
- mcv 5y agoIt's like Labour Day. The whole world agrees, except the US, which has a different date for it.
- atonse 5y agoHuh interesting. What is the US date based on? And what is the rest of the world’s date based on?
- celticninja 5y agoMay 1st is the standard in the rest of the world, US it's sometime in September.
- Zababa 5y agoMany countries have their date based on the International Worker's Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day. The US aren't the only one celebrating it on a different day, Japan does it too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Thanksgiving_Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Thanksgiving_Day.
- mcv 5y agoFunny thing about that is that the the international one, on May 1, is ultimately based on a strike in Chicago. So the entire world celebrates Labour Day based on an event in the US, while the US alone uses a different date. And somehow that doesn't even seem that unusual to me; the US often is the first with a new idea, and as soon as others join in, they back down.
- Zababa 5y ago
- q-big 5y ago> But not if you use 02-12-2021 This is not an ISO 8601 or RFC 3339 date.
- cmstoken 5y agoSo happy about this! Have fun everyone.
- evanb 5y agoIt’s also easy to write today’s date as an ambigram! Just gotta symmetrize the 2 a bit. Think 7-segment LCD font.
- blaesus 5y agoRandom note: Subaru China published their new BRZ today, which is distinguished by its boxer engine, with (somewhat) symmetric pistons.
- credit_guy 5y agoIf you wanted to celebrate, but all the restaurants are booked, tell them you are quite flexible. Tomorrow (12/3/21), or during the weekend is fine too. And all the weekdays next week. Just make sure you get that reservation before next Friday (12/9/21).
- rmeertens 5y agoA great day to read upon my old article on building the most complete palindromic sentence: http://www.pinchofintelligence.com/worlds-longest-palindrome/ http://www.pinchofintelligence.com/worlds-longest-palindrome...
- ChrisArchitect 5y agowondered just how widespread this would be accepted and got down a rabbit hole of international standards ISO-8601 etc and surprisingly (so often are ppl at odds around the world about this) it's pretty universal this one!