No, not that kind of date. Sadly, not the other kind, either.
In a links list last week, I made the observation that the date is a palindrome, and all dates from December first until the ninth are palindromes. Yes, that is dependent on how you write the date. I write it the simplest American way, like 12/1/21. Your mileage may vary. I also mentioned that this won't happen again for a long time. I meant an entire nine-day string of palindromic dates. There are other days that are palindromes.
William Rocket, who uses zeroes in dates, pointed out that 12/02/2021 was also a palindrome even when you add the extra numbers, but he would read it as last February 12th. He's not American.
Bicycle Bill alerted us out that 12/11/21 is also a palindrome, which gives us a coda after the consecutive string. Another will be on Groundhog Day, 2/2/22, which is also a rare string of identical digits. Rare? It happens twice that month, because there's also 2/22/22!
After that, we should see two palindromic dates per year — for example, 3/2/23 and 3/22/23; 4/2/24 and 4/22/24; and so on until 2030.Kolo Jezdec noted that we have another palindromic date before this year is over, on 12/22/21.
Use that information as you please. It will probably confuse people.
7 comments:
You philistines from other cultures who don't write your dates in binary end up with so many fewer palindromic dates than our advanced society.
I have proven myself a bad date by telling some of the above to someone who's never heard of a palindrome.
This philistine from an other culture, he who is not scared to have a unique moniker, just occasionally wants to remind his American friends that they are but 5% of the world's people, and live in just one of the 197 (confirmation needed) of the countries in the world.
Knowledge which should automatically raise the spectre of different ways of doing things.
Hence I am not a lunatic, Kamikaze, society hating thug, when I drive at 100 kilometres per hour, on a busy highway, on the right side of the road.
And for Kolo - 01011001 01100101 01110100 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100100 01101111 00101110.
But kudos for not being just another, one of many, Mr. Anonymice.
6f 6e 65 73 20 61 6e 64 20 7a 65 72 6f 73 20 61 72 65 20 6f 76 65 72 72 61 74 65 64
Are you as bored as I am?
Might not be a palindrome but it still makes sense backwards eh?
It's all good fun, but the most fun palindrome is: xanax
The US may be 5% of the world's population, but it's 70% of the audience for this blog. Add Canada, and that's more than 75%. Strangely, Norway is in third place.
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