The things geeks care about! Today the digits line up in a pretty unique way. They are talking about it over on Channel 9.
Where will you be at 01:02:03 on 04/05/06?
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Scobleizer 
A bit early to be talking about the 4th May isn’t it? 🙂
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A bit early to be talking about the 4th May isn’t it? 🙂
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David: Heheh!
Well, we have our fun today. You have to wait until then, OK?
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David: Heheh!
Well, we have our fun today. You have to wait until then, OK?
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that sounds like a lot of fun.
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that sounds like a lot of fun.
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I must admit, I’ve never understood the justification for MM/DD/YY over DD/MM/YY — Anyone care to clarify this?
Like the rest of the civilised world, I’ll be waiting until the 4th day of the 5th month in the 6th year of this century before I contemplate its fun factor.
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I must admit, I’ve never understood the justification for MM/DD/YY over DD/MM/YY — Anyone care to clarify this?
Like the rest of the civilised world, I’ll be waiting until the 4th day of the 5th month in the 6th year of this century before I contemplate its fun factor.
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“Anyone care to clarify this?”
Americans tend to say “April Fifth”, while right-thinking people would the “the Fifth of April”. So, if we allow them their peculiarity in this matter, their strangeness in date notation falls into line. It’s a piece of nonsense that has kept many a non-US programmer in employment for many a year as they wrestle with mystery date errors across the Microsoft (and for all I know other providers’) product range…
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“Anyone care to clarify this?”
Americans tend to say “April Fifth”, while right-thinking people would the “the Fifth of April”. So, if we allow them their peculiarity in this matter, their strangeness in date notation falls into line. It’s a piece of nonsense that has kept many a non-US programmer in employment for many a year as they wrestle with mystery date errors across the Microsoft (and for all I know other providers’) product range…
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there is another time/date coming up pretty soon:
06-06-06-06-06-06
I’ll be on my way to the airport at that time 🙂
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there is another time/date coming up pretty soon:
06-06-06-06-06-06
I’ll be on my way to the airport at that time 🙂
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I agree that it’s all very confusing, these date formats. It seems that in Canada they’re just happy to write down a date in any format. Recently I have seen DD/MM/YY, MM/DD/YY and even YY/MM/DD. It’s all very confusing.
I could be wrong but it does appear to me that the US date format is more standardised!
I spend approximately half my time in Australia and the other half in Canada so I’ve changed to just using the DD-MMM-YYYY format (eg. 5-Apr-2006) as often as I can… if only for my own sanity when I look back over notes, my ‘notebook calendar’ and chequebooks.
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I agree that it’s all very confusing, these date formats. It seems that in Canada they’re just happy to write down a date in any format. Recently I have seen DD/MM/YY, MM/DD/YY and even YY/MM/DD. It’s all very confusing.
I could be wrong but it does appear to me that the US date format is more standardised!
I spend approximately half my time in Australia and the other half in Canada so I’ve changed to just using the DD-MMM-YYYY format (eg. 5-Apr-2006) as often as I can… if only for my own sanity when I look back over notes, my ‘notebook calendar’ and chequebooks.
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I was playing Halo 2 at 01.02.03 on 04/05/06. At 13.02 this afternoon, the time just won’t seem as special.
And I agree that the US date method is completely ridiculous. I prefer YYYY-MM-DD myself.
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I was playing Halo 2 at 01.02.03 on 04/05/06. At 13.02 this afternoon, the time just won’t seem as special.
And I agree that the US date method is completely ridiculous. I prefer YYYY-MM-DD myself.
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Bah, nobody uses time like that… or stores it in a database that way.
The real question should be: where will you be at 04/05/06 07:08:09 ??
Ok ok , you caught me.. where were you at…
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Bah, nobody uses time like that… or stores it in a database that way.
The real question should be: where will you be at 04/05/06 07:08:09 ??
Ok ok , you caught me.. where were you at…
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The one true format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss
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The one true format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss
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I was programming…
well… seeing the result of my programming
http://ebersys.blogspot.com/2006/04/010203040506-as-way-of-celebration-for.html
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I was programming…
well… seeing the result of my programming
http://ebersys.blogspot.com/2006/04/010203040506-as-way-of-celebration-for.html
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Old news… the big one was 12:34:56 7/8/90
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Old news… the big one was 12:34:56 7/8/90
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ah yes but its not a true line up is it. only with the date format in the US.
a true line up would be on the 4th of May.
🙂
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ah yes but its not a true line up is it. only with the date format in the US.
a true line up would be on the 4th of May.
🙂
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Only in America (the United States of ….) 😉
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Only in America (the United States of ….) 😉
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A few years ago, a local theater company opened a play on March 2nd, 2001, which in the American way of reading things is “03/02/01”. So, what play was it? Agatha Christie’s “Toward Zero” (they assured me it was just a coincidence).
http://www.njtheater.com/?P741
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A few years ago, a local theater company opened a play on March 2nd, 2001, which in the American way of reading things is “03/02/01”. So, what play was it? Agatha Christie’s “Toward Zero” (they assured me it was just a coincidence).
http://www.njtheater.com/?P741
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