Comments on: Today is a Palindrome

By: Beatitude Sputnik

Beatitude Sputnik — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:06:13 +0000

slightly more than a second after 8:10 pm on Jan 02 it was

2010/01/02 – 20:10:01.02

I don’t really care how my country or America or Europe writes their dates or times. That’s how I write dates. because it’s the logical way. And when’s the last time you saw a country write a date anyways. That’s .. bizarre. A country doesn’t have hands. It’s made of rocks and dirt. You’re weird, Neatorama. You, as a website, should stop saying things like that.

By: niclet

niclet — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:42:10 +0000

I personally use the yymmdd format (yes, without slash) for any of my documents. It is way more logic, more easier to sort and faster to retrieve. In this format, the next palindrome will be 101101.

By: Mona Curtis

Mona Curtis — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:39:54 +0000

Just thought I’d let you know that I featured you on my page for January 2, in 365 Holidays a Year, where every day is a reason to celebrate.

By: Pris

Pris — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:03:25 +0000

People….get a life.

By: Larfin Jackarse

Larfin Jackarse — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:38:49 +0000

@Skipweasel I totally agree.
However in the defence of yanq’s you do say ‘July the 12th’ or ‘Feb 1st’ etc don’t you? Thus 7/12/10 makes sense. Or so an North American elegantly explained to me once (even though she preferred dd/mm/yy).

By: Kay

Kay — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:18:36 +0000

On government forms they often specify MM/DD/YYYY, but if you’re just writing the date on a letter (ha!) or something, what’s the purpose of writing a zero before a single digit day or month? I really hate when people do that.

By: gia

gia — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:39:31 +0000

The next palindrome day is still 01.02.2010 or 01/02/2010 aka 1st February as barely most of the world that actually uses a Gregorian calendar keeps it dd.mm.yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy and not mm/dd/yyyy.
And then we have all the non-Gregorian systems…

By: Moti The Wonder Dog

Moti The Wonder Dog — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:35:17 +0000

Hurrah! That would be a palindrome in

Belize
Canada
Federated States of Micronesia
Palau
Philippines
United States

By: SouDesuKa

SouDesuKa — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:36:33 +0000

… err Feb 1st

By: SouDesuKa

SouDesuKa — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:36:10 +0000

Actually, the next palindromic date depends on how you write it. If you leave off leading zeros, then XX/YY/10 can’t have any, otherwise 1/1/11 works, and 1/10/11, as well. If you write YYYY/MM/DD then 2010/01/02 still works and maybe 2010/10/2, and 2011/10/2 in addition to 2011/11/02. Does anyone write DD/MM/YYYY? That could offer 01/02/2010 (feb 2nd)

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:11:32 +0000

Why do Americans use such a perverse format for date? You don’t put the seconds between the hours and the minutes, so why put the days between the months and the years?
Anyway – YYY/MM/DD makes more sense – so us Brit don’t get full marks either.

By: MadMolecule

MadMolecule — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:00:17 +0000

I noticed that yesterday was a binary day in mm/dd/yy format: 01/01/10.