Today is a sort of palindrome, if you think of month-day-century-year as the units: 10/20/2010. In U.S. form, anyway–it always throws me for a complete loop when I see something like 20/10/2010–month 20?!?
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Thank you. That makes my day!
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It makes my day too. Say, what is it in binary?
10100 / 1010 / 11111011010
No, that doesn’t work at all.
About the ordering issue: it really bothers me that the ordering of the day and the month are used so inconsistently. I wish everyone would follow the correct method of stating first the day, then the month, and then the year. It makes perfect sense to proceed in order from the smallest time unit to the largest. Anything else is, I believe, rooted in the deepest perversity. -
So Canadians do it wrong, too? 🙂
Actually one thing that makes the month-day-year form seem more fitting to me is that it goes from the smallest possible quantity to the largest (max_month = 12, max_day = 31, max_year = 99 or 9999, depending on how many places you’re using). -
That bit of sophistry is almost convincing.
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As is so often the case with sophistry. Not that I’m conceding this is sophistry, of course.
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You wouldn’t believe how excited I was the day that I realized that sophistication had something to do with sophistry.
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Yes I would.:-)
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I just noticed that it’s 10/30/2010. I like that one, too.
AMDG
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