[time-nuts] Yesterday was the first palindromic date for 909 years

Bill Metzenthen billm713 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 4 01:06:51 UTC 2020


On 4/2/20 1:59 am, shouldbe q931 wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 2:05 PM <timenut at metachaos.net> wrote:
>> 2021-12-02
>> 12-02-2021
>>
>> I'm afraid the UK is out of that one though and any 20xx year. Sucks to be
>> them!
>>
>> Michael Lee Finney
>>
> The way I read it, 12-02-2021 is the twelfth day of February 2021 in
> "UK" date format, a palindromic date
>
> Have I missed something ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Arne
>
I think not.  If my quick check is correct, there are 29 palandromic 
dates in "UK" format for 20xx years, but only 12 "US" dates.  It does 
"suck" in the 22xx years, when there are 12 more "US" palandromic dates 
but of course no "UK" ones.  It then "sucks" for both formats until 
10-03-3001 when the next "UK" one occurs.


Bill






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