Wow, never noticed the date..

[GoldenBear]

It's 01/01/01.

How interesting. Occurences like these will only occur once a year for the next twelve years, and then we'll have to wait another 89 years for it to happen again.

I'm bored.

 

[dcdomain]

Good observation... I'm mad bored too... waiting for the laundry to be done...

10101... does that spell anything in binary??? hehehe...

 

[Zorba]

10101 in binary = 21 in Decimal = § in ASCII

 

[mpg]

Date Posted: Dec/31/2000 9:02 PM

It's 01/01/01.

How interesting. Occurences like these will only occur once a year for the next twelve years, and then we'll have to wait another 89 years for it to happen again.

I'm bored.

 

[dcdomain]

Very interesting Zorba... so what does 010101 spell?
Useless... but extermely interesting facts...

 

[GoldenBear]

Or if you're one of those nuts that don't use zeros, then you can wait 10 years and then eleven years following that to get the same deal, such as 1/1/11, 6/6/66, and so forth...

 

[DABANSHEE]

Hey Why do Americans do their dates in a month/day/year arrangement? When just about everywhere else they write it in a day/month/year setup.

Just curious, the topic got me wondering.

 

[Muadib]

Because we rule!! USA USA USA

 

[Gorgonzola]

because the US is stuck up and wants to be different

 

[ChrisIsBored]

And we have the firepower to do it!

 

[Zipperhead]

cool

 

[Jugernot]

DABANSHEE, personally I think it because we americans say dates like "January first, two thousand one" this translates to the month first, then day, then year. Curious, do you say "first, January, two thousand one"? OR "One, January, two thousand one"?

 

[Weyoun]

I usually say 28th of January, I'm from Australia, same as DABANSHEE

 

[DABANSHEE]

well in the case of my birthday I'd say

"31st of October, 1964" or
"31 of the 10th, 1964" or if I was real lazy
"31st of the 10th, '64" or as I'd write it on a form
"31/10/64" (also pronounced "31st of the 10th, '64") Which seems to be the standard way to write it in the British Commonwealth (I don't know about Canada though - aftertall there's been a bit of cultural imperialism flowing north across the 49th Parallel) & the European Union.

I spose it was a bit facetious of me, claiming the British Commonwealth & the European Union as "just about everywhere else", but you know what I mean.

 

[jaydee]

How about 10/10/01, or 03/02/01 in March hmmm... 10/01/01, 11/10/01, 11/11/01, 01/11/01....

 

[Zorba]

dcdomain:010101 is the same as 10101 because the zeros have no view, just place holders. Just like the zeros in 100.

If you write it 1/1/1 = 111 = 7 = Nothing in ASCII.

Now if you turn the whole date into binary, 01/01/20001 = 0010111111010001 = 47 & 209 (Using 8bit binary) = /Ñ. Now lets use the whole date as 14bit binary. 10111111010001 = 12,241. The problem is ACSII onlygoes up to 255.

 

[GoldenBear]

OOH, and soon (for west coasters), and twelve hours after that, the time will be 11:11 on 1/1/01.

It's even better if it's 11:11 on 11/11/11.

Just awesome.

 

[sweetrobin]

hehe ... E_mc_2 and I are getting married 09-01-01 ... (aka 911) ... he thinks its highly apropriate ... hehe