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    From yeti@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 24 03:00:47 2024
    It's "Chinese Programmer's Day"!

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day#Chinese_Programmer's_Day>
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    | Chinese Programmer's Day
    |
    | In China, the programmer's day is October 24, which has been
    | established for many years. The date was chosen because it can also be
    | written as 1024, which is equal to 210 and corresponds to the Ki
    | binary prefix. It is also a consistent date regardless of leap years.
    .

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  • From John McCue@21:1/5 to yeti on Thu Oct 24 14:53:28 2024
    yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
    It's "Chinese Programmer's Day"!

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day#Chinese_Programmer's_Day>
    |
    | Chinese Programmer's Day
    |
    | In China, the programmer's day is October 24, which has been
    | established for many years. The date was chosen because it can also be
    | written as 1024, which is equal to 210 and corresponds to the Ki
    | binary prefix. It is also a consistent date regardless of leap years.

    Interesting, I wish all programmers a good day. Maybe this
    will become a thing like PI Day.

    --
    [t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
    - Paraphrasing Star Wars

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  • From yeti@21:1/5 to John McCue on Thu Oct 24 16:22:19 2024
    John McCue <jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com> wrote:

    yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
    It's "Chinese Programmer's Day"!

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day#Chinese_Programmer's_Day> >> |
    | Chinese Programmer's Day
    |
    | In China, the programmer's day is October 24, which has been
    | established for many years. The date was chosen because it can also be
    | written as 1024, which is equal to 210 and corresponds to the Ki
    | binary prefix. It is also a consistent date regardless of leap years.

    Interesting, I wish all programmers a good day.

    \o/ ___( 2 U 2! )

    Maybe this will become a thing like PI Day.

    IIRC the international programmers' day is DOY 256. I'm too lazy to
    look that up now, hot food is waiting.

    I looked at such dates for playing with cron(tab). E.g. NetBSD's
    birthday, Groundhog Day, last DOM, the local repair-café on "even"
    thursdays (wasn't there yet, but cron reliably mails me), ...

    Unluckily nice solutions heavily different depending on using BSD or
    GNU `date`, but it's a nice puzzle!

    ... says someone who sometimes "plays" DC just for fun. >;-)

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    I do not bite, I just want to play.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to yeti on Thu Oct 24 22:34:46 2024
    On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:22:19 +0042, yeti wrote:

    IIRC the international programmers' day is DOY 256. I'm too lazy to
    look that up now ...

    ldo@theon:~> date -d "1-Jan-2024 + 255 days"
    Thu 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 NZST

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  • From yeti@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Fri Oct 25 10:14:12 2024
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:22:19 +0042, yeti wrote:

    IIRC the international programmers' day is DOY 256. I'm too lazy to
    look that up now ...

    ldo@theon:~> date -d "1-Jan-2024 + 255 days"
    Thu 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 NZST

    But I did NOT mean looking up it's current date (I'm fluent enough with
    GNU and BSD `date`), I meant looking up whether I remember the
    definition (DOY 256) correctly.

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