Today is (in American notation) 12/02/2021, a palindrome.
The last such day was about a decade ago, 11/02/2011.
When will the next such day be?
Today is (in American notation) 12/02/2021, a palindrome.
The last such day was about a decade ago, 11/02/2011.
When will the next such day be?
Today is (in American notation) 12/02/2021, a palindrome.
The last such day was about a decade ago, 11/02/2011.
Up until the turn of this century, the year was universally
notated by two digits. To my knowledge, the calendar police
haven't succeeded in getting the world to go four. Where is
the pope when you really need one? So...2/2/22 still looms.
On Fri, 03 Dec 2021 03:58:24 +0000, Keith F. Lynch wrote:Not "universal". Perhaps true where you live, but most definitely not universal.
Today is (in American notation) 12/02/2021, a palindrome.
The last such day was about a decade ago, 11/02/2011.
When will the next such day be?
Up until the turn of this century, the year was universally
notated by two digits.
Charles Packer wrote:
Up until the turn of this century, the year was universally notated
by two digits.
Not "universal". Perhaps true where you live, but most definitely
not universal.
I have family documents that are hand-dated 18xx, and some forms
which are printed with "18__", with the appropriate value filled-in
over the "__".
Also for us ISO date users. 2021-02-12.
Probably still not as cool as the 2nd Feb 2020 - which was a
palindrome in US, UK and ISO notations. The day of the year was
a palindrome and the number of days left in the year was also a
palindrome.
"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
Today is (in American notation) 12/02/2021, a palindrome.
The last such day was about a decade ago, 11/02/2011.
When will the next such day be?
I offer March 2, 2030 (03/02/2030)
Andy Leighton <andyl@azaal.plus.com> wrote:
Also for us ISO date users. 2021-02-12.
Not a palindrome.
Today is (in American notation) 12/02/2021, a palindrome.
The last such day was about a decade ago, 11/02/2011.
When will the next such day be?
Op 3-12-2021 om 4:58 schreef Keith F. Lynch:
Today is (in American notation) 12/02/2021, a palindrome.
The last such day was about a decade ago, 11/02/2011.
When will the next such day be?
I think the last one was :
21/02/2012Â ?
(in your american notation)
On 1/7/22 11:57 AM, Rink wrote:
Op 3-12-2021 om 4:58 schreef Keith F. Lynch:
Today is (in American notation) 12/02/2021, a palindrome.
The last such day was about a decade ago, 11/02/2011.
When will the next such day be?
I think the last one was :
21/02/2012 ?
(in your american notation)
American notation is MM/DD/YYYY. 21/02/2012 isn't a valid date in that >notation.
Rink wrote:
I think the last one was :
21/02/2012 ?
(in your american notation)
American notation is MM/DD/YYYY. 21/02/2012 isn't a valid date in
that notation.
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Rink wrote:
I think the last one was :
21/02/2012 ?
(in your american notation)
American notation is MM/DD/YYYY. 21/02/2012 isn't a valid date in
that notation.
Right. There was a recent XKCD about it. https://xkcd.com/2562/
On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 22:08:09 +0100, Rink
<rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> wrote:
Op 8-1-2022 om 22:16 schreef Keith F. Lynch:
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Rink wrote:
I think the last one was :
21/02/2012 ?
(in your american notation)
American notation is MM/DD/YYYY. 21/02/2012 isn't a valid date in
that notation.
Right. There was a recent XKCD about it. https://xkcd.com/2562/
You're right.
I make that mistake all the time.
American notation is highly illogical.....
Why do you first call the month, then the day and then the year?
Are digital clocks by you the same?
first the minutes then the seconds and then the hours ?
Rink
No, the logical notation is YYYY/MM/DD HH/MM/SS. And the next
palindrome is 2030/03/02.
--
Op 8-1-2022 om 22:16 schreef Keith F. Lynch:
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Rink wrote:
I think the last one was :
21/02/2012 ?
(in your american notation)
American notation is MM/DD/YYYY. 21/02/2012 isn't a valid date in
that notation.
Right. There was a recent XKCD about it. https://xkcd.com/2562/
You're right.
I make that mistake all the time.
American notation is highly illogical.....
Why do you first call the month, then the day and then the year?
Are digital clocks by you the same?
first the minutes then the seconds and then the hours ?
Rink
Op 8-1-2022 om 22:16 schreef Keith F. Lynch:
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Rink wrote:
I think the last one was :
21/02/2012 ?
(in your american notation)
American notation is MM/DD/YYYY. 21/02/2012 isn't a valid date in
that notation.
Right. There was a recent XKCD about it. https://xkcd.com/2562/
You're right.
I make that mistake all the time.
American notation is highly illogical.....
Why do you first call the month, then the day and then the year?
Are digital clocks by you the same?
first the minutes then the seconds and then the hours ?
American notation is highly illogical.....
Why do you first call the month, then the day and then the year?
On 1/13/22 4:08 PM, Rink wrote:
American notation is highly illogical.....
Why do you first call the month, then the day and then the year?
I tried to figure out when the divergence started. The US Declaration of Independence is headed with the date July 4, 1776, though we commonly
refer to the holiday European-style as the "Fourth of July."
In some divergences between US and British uses, it's the British one
which has changed since colonial days. I've been unable to find any good information in this case.
On 1/13/22 4:08 PM, Rink wrote:
American notation is highly illogical.....
Why do you first call the month, then the day and then the year?I tried to figure out when the divergence started. The US Declaration of Independence is headed with the date July 4, 1776, though we commonly
refer to the holiday European-style as the "Fourth of July."
In some divergences between US and British uses, it's the British one
which has changed since colonial days. I've been unable to find any good information in this case.
In an unrelated bit of amusement, I saw a video today pointing out the
error of another video that claimed to show how big "England" is by superimposing a map of the UK (including Scotland and Northern Ireland)
on a map of the US.
--
In some divergences between US and British uses, it's the British one
which has changed since colonial days. I've been unable to find any
good information in this case.
On Friday, January 14, 2022 at 7:55:30 AM UTC-5, Gary McGath wrote:
On 1/13/22 4:08 PM, Rink wrote:
I tried to figure out when the divergence started. The US Declaration of
American notation is highly illogical.....
Why do you first call the month, then the day and then the year?
Independence is headed with the date July 4, 1776, though we commonly
refer to the holiday European-style as the "Fourth of July."
In some divergences between US and British uses, it's the British one
which has changed since colonial days. I've been unable to find any good
information in this case.
In an unrelated bit of amusement, I saw a video today pointing out the
error of another video that claimed to show how big "England" is by
superimposing a map of the UK (including Scotland and Northern Ireland)
on a map of the US.
--
Did Wales get forgotten, again?
On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 07:55:08 -0800 (PST), Kevrob <kev...@my-deja.com>
wrote:
Did Wales get forgotten, again?
Well, a map that includes England, Scotland, and -Ulster- (Northern)
Ireland would, perforce, include Wales, unless it was excised from the
map.
--
In some divergences between US and British uses, it's the British
one which has changed since colonial days.
In an unrelated bit of amusement, I saw a video today pointing out the
error of another video that claimed to show how big "England" is by superimposing a map of the UK (including Scotland and Northern Ireland)
on a map of the US.
In an unrelated bit of amusement, I saw a video today pointing out the
error of another video that claimed to show how big "England" is by
superimposing a map of the UK (including Scotland and Northern Ireland)
on a map of the US.
Mercator projection?
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
In some divergences between US and British uses, it's the British
one which has changed since colonial days.
Especialy in pronunciation. "RP" came from one 18th century stage
actor with a speech defect.
Also as you may know RP is much different today than in the past, and
may have fractured into 3 subtypes.
American notation is highly illogical.....
Why do you first call the month, then the day and then the year?
Are digital clocks by you the same?
first the minutes then the seconds and then the hours ?
No. It's hours, minutes, then seconds. But in the US it's mostly
12-hour time, not 24-hour time, though that may be changing.
On 1/16/22 2:30 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
No. It's hours, minutes, then seconds. But in the US it's mostly
12-hour time, not 24-hour time, though that may be changing.
ObSF: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking >thirteen." (First sentence of 1984)
In article <ss225m$sk$1@dont-email.me>,
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
On 1/16/22 2:30 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:ISTR that some of the early town clocks were 24-hour.
No. It's hours, minutes, then seconds. But in the US it's mostly
12-hour time, not 24-hour time, though that may be changing.
ObSF: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking >>thirteen." (First sentence of 1984)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_astronomical_clock
Meg got to visit Prague a few years ago (nursemaiding one of her
lawyer boss's elderly clients). I'll ask her if she saw this,
when she gets home. Odds are, she did.
Rink <rink.hof.ha...@planet.nl> wrote:
American notation is highly illogical.....I agree that it's illogical. But it's what we're used to.
Why do you first call the month, then the day and then the year?
Similarly with the "short scale," in which a billion means a thousand
million rather than a million million. The US has always used it.
Britain adopted it about half a century ago. Before that Britain used
the more logical long scale, which I see that your country still uses.
Are digital clocks by you the same?No. It's hours, minutes, then seconds. But in the US it's mostly
first the minutes then the seconds and then the hours ?
12-hour time, not 24-hour time, though that may be changing. Some
say it's irrational to have 60-second minutes and 60-minute hours
but express those numbers in base 10. For a few years the French
used 100-second minutes, 100-minute hours, and 10-hour days.
It's interesting that time below seconds is decimal. Or rather base
1000. We use milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds, etc. (Nobody
uses kiloseconds, megaseconds, gigaseconds, etc.) (Well, *I* do, but
I'm weird.) But there's an older system, in which a 60th of a second
is called a third, a 60th of a third is a fourth, etc. If you've read Copernicus, he even uses fifths, which is an impressively short time
interval for the 16th century, which was before even the invention of
the pendulum clock.
In article <r5txFw.184H@kithrup.com>,
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
In article <ss225m$sk$1@dont-email.me>,
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
On 1/16/22 2:30 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:ISTR that some of the early town clocks were 24-hour.
No. It's hours, minutes, then seconds. But in the US it's mostly
12-hour time, not 24-hour time, though that may be changing.
ObSF: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking >>thirteen." (First sentence of 1984)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_astronomical_clock
Meg got to visit Prague a few years ago (nursemaiding one of her
lawyer boss's elderly clients). I'll ask her if she saw this,
when she gets home. Odds are, she did.
She did; but the clock was undergoing restoration at the time and
the dials were covered. But she did get to go up in the tower
and see all the machinery. And then she got to go through the
town hall and observe all the additions that had been made to it
over the centuries.
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