John ks Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 A useless bit of information for people that like this sort of thing When I write this 01-02-2020 I realised that tomorrow 's date is a palindrome 02 02 2020 It works where the date format is DD MM YYYY , MM DD YYYY , YYYY DD MM or YYYY MM DD John 9 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Sunday's date, not tomorrow! However, I tried this on my wife (a maths teacher) - amused her! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Am I correct in thinking, if we stick to DD MM YY format, but add the time of day, it's even better when it gets to 20 minutes and 20 seconds past two in the morning? DD MM YY HH MM SS 02 02 20 - 02 20 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 51 minutes ago, Tim V said: Sunday's date, not tomorrow! However, I tried this on my wife (a maths teacher) - amused her! John's out in Oz, where they are a bit in front of us and its Saturday already! 1 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 31 minutes ago, eastglosmog said: John's out in Oz, where they are a bit in front of us and its Saturday already! Which tickled me when it was the Millennium and doomsayers were saying the world was going to end at midnight and planes will fall from the sky due to the Millennium Bug. Yet midnight had already happened in other parts of the world with no effects whatsoever. Jason 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 3 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: Which tickled me when it was the Millennium and doomsayers were saying the world was going to end at midnight and planes will fall from the sky due to the Millennium Bug. No one who understood the Millennium bug would have said such a thing. The issue was really with financial reporting and most of it was fixed in time. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said: No one who understood the Millennium bug would have said such a thing. The issue was really with financial reporting and most of it was fixed in time. Many things other than financial reporting! But I agree, a lot of work was done to avoid any problems, with great success. 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted February 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2020 (edited) 12 hours ago, John ks said: A useless bit of information for people that like this sort of thing When I write this 01-02-2020 I realised that tomorrow 's date is a palindrome 02 02 2020 It works where the date format is DD MM YYYY , MM DD YYYY , YYYY DD MM or YYYY MM DD John The next time that will happen will be 2121-12-12, then not again for 900 years, and the last time was 1111-11-11. Edited February 1, 2020 by Nick C Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 2 hours ago, Nick C said: The next time that will happen will be 2121-12-12, then not again for 900 years, and the last time was 1111-11-11. 11111111 would have been the same upside down, as well! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted February 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2020 1961 was the last time the year could be read upside down. Won't happen again until 6009 ie just before Bachmann decide the time's right to retool the Manor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PaulCheffus Posted February 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2020 (edited) On 31/01/2020 at 22:51, Steamport Southport said: Which tickled me when it was the Millennium and doomsayers were saying the world was going to end at midnight and planes will fall from the sky due to the Millennium Bug. Yet midnight had already happened in other parts of the world with no effects whatsoever. Jason Hi And as I have pointed out before that was because of the millions of people in the background that updated the systems so it wouldn't happen. In fact certain events did happen even before the millennium. Unfortunately I can't remember the exact instances but it was to do with two digit years and the system rolling over to 00 which made it look like people were the wrong age. Cheers Paul Edited February 3, 2020 by PaulCheffus 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ramrig Posted February 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2020 To add to yesterday’s number crunching it was the 33 day of the year with 333 to go!, 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ramrig Posted February 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2020 (edited) Double post Edited February 3, 2020 by Ramrig Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 57xx Posted February 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2020 On 01/02/2020 at 09:04, Nick C said: The next time that will happen will be 2121-12-12, then not again for 900 years, and the last time was 1111-11-11. For all countries using normal date notation it's only a year away on 12-02-2021. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted February 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2020 11 minutes ago, 57xx said: For all countries using normal date notation it's only a year away on 12-02-2021. It is, but the point about yesterday was that it works in all the major date formats, not just the sensible ones... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 Isn't it where Sir Michael keeps his aeroplane? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted February 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2020 (edited) Deleted. Edited February 3, 2020 by tomparryharry Post deleted:- Not helpful Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John ks Posted February 4, 2020 Author Share Posted February 4, 2020 Just watched a u tube video covering this date Enjoy John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 2mmMark Posted February 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2020 (edited) On 03/02/2020 at 16:58, PaulCheffus said: Hi And as I have pointed out before that was because of the millions of people in the background that updated the systems so it wouldn't happen. In fact certain events did happen even before the millennium. Unfortunately I can't remember the exact instances but it was to do with two digit years and the system rolling over to 00 which made it look like people were the wrong age. Cheers Paul I definitely wrote PL/1 and COBOL code in the 1980s that would have failed come 1st Jan 2000. At that time, saving two bytes of storage saved a lot of money when mainframe disk space was very expensive. What me & my colleagues never bargained for was that our code would be in use nearly 20 years later. The first PC I worked on, 1983/4 ish, I was handed a 360kb floppy disk and told "be careful, these cost £12 each". Again, saving every possible byte was important when you only had 512kb of memory. Sometimes we had 640kb, that was lavish beyond our wildest dreams. Oh, and my favourite palindrome is "notlob" Edited February 5, 2020 by 2mmMark 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted February 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2020 1 hour ago, 2mmMark said: IOh, and my favourite palindrome is "notlob" Don't you mean "Ipswich"? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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