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JimmiG said:
I thought all Americans reverse the order in which they write the month and day, e.g. MMDDYY instead of YYMMDD?

Strange though, they don't write e.g. half past five numerically as 30:05 :confused:
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Yep, MMDDYY here. Don't see why you think of it as strange though. "October fifth, 09", "September eleventh, 01", "January eleventh, 2010", etc.

(Also, I like how MMDDYY features increasing numbers. (01-12)/(01-31)/(00-99))
 
Azhar said:
Next year's going to be the first time we've ever had a date with all the same numbers, isn't it?

November 11, 2011 (111111).
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Well, at least the first time since Nov. 11, 1911, which was also 11/11/11. ;)

ryan_975 said:
What about 9/9/99, or 8/8/88, etc?
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Technically, you'd have to put a leading "0" in those dates, so 09/09/99 do not all have the same numbers.

That said, 08/08/08 was pretty neat when the Olympics officially began. :cool:
 
Deadgye said:
Yep, MMDDYY here. Don't see why you think of it as strange though. "October fifth, 09", "September eleventh, 01", "January eleventh, 2010", etc.

(Also, I like how MMDDYY features increasing numbers. (01-12)/(01-31)/(00-99))
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I prefer the European way of DDMMYY since it's in alphabetical order and in unit of time order.
 
beowulf7 said:
I prefer the European way of DDMMYY since it's in alphabetical order and in unit of time order.
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Well, reverse unit of time order, anyway. You wouldn't put the time before the date or seconds before minutes, would you?

2010-01-11 11:11:11.111111
 
beowulf7 said:
Well, at least the first time since Nov. 11, 1911, which was also 11/11/11. ;)


Technically, you'd have to put a leading "0" in those dates, so 09/09/99 do not all have the same numbers.

That said, 08/08/08 was pretty neat when the Olympics officially began. :cool:
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lol yeah my brain doesn't do Monday mornings.
 
beowulf7 said:
Well, at least the first time since Nov. 11, 1911, which was also 11/11/11. ;)


Technically, you'd have to put a leading "0" in those dates, so 09/09/99 do not all have the same numbers.

That said, 08/08/08 was pretty neat when the Olympics officially began. :cool:
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In that case, let's make sure to put the lead 20 in front of the year too. That way we're not confused about whether we're talking about 2008 or, for example, 1908. Then it all just breaks down. Because then you need to put in whether we talking about AD/CE or BC(E).
 
I can see Steve's facepalm as his harmless little riddle has spiraled into a brain buster.
 
now I remember why I hated anything binary in school....all the self loving...egoistical know it alls who all always say crap like...ITS SO FKING EZ!!! Binary sux....
Rant 0ff
 
beowulf7 said:
Well, at least the first time since Nov. 11, 1911, which was also 11/11/11. ;)
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Um actually wouldn't the first instance of 11/11/11 be November 11th, of the year 11? Thought that was pretty obvious. We had 1900 years or 9 instances of 11/11/11 prior to 1911 you know. well technically more before, a lot more, but we count down in reverse for those years. so technically there is a 11/11/11 BC and a 11/11/11 AD, but did they have a 12 month calendar at that time?

Anyway counting up from 11/11/11 we have..

1/1/1 (doesn't actually count since we are talking about 11/11/11)
11/11/111 (wow thats a cool one too, does the 1 get dropped when this was written?)
11/11/'11'11 (same cool)
11/11/'12'11
11/11/'13'11
11/11/'14'11
11/11/'15'11
11/11/'16'11
11/11/'17'11
11/11/'18'11
11/11/'19'11
11/11/'20'11
 
I think it's OK to verbally ask the question. It's just a little annoying to not quote or italicize the written target as in "today's date" or today's date. If this were done I believe the desired would have been found sooner.

Here's another one which works quite well verbally:

you write down the letters, in order

n e w d o o r​

and ask the victim to make one word from them. Most people will struggle for some time and finally give up.

Anybody care to guess the desired target solution, whose derivation is akin to this thread's?
 
Deadgye said:
Yep, MMDDYY here. Don't see why you think of it as strange though. "October fifth, 09", "September eleventh, 01", "January eleventh, 2010", etc.

(Also, I like how MMDDYY features increasing numbers. (01-12)/(01-31)/(00-99))
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It doesn't makes sense to anyone else, since most places use DDMMYY which is an incerment in order of time magnitude. Going YYMMDD is the same thing inverted.
Just like the unpractical, imprecise Standard System.
 
srangara said:
Well, reverse unit of time order, anyway. You wouldn't put the time before the date or seconds before minutes, would you?

2010-01-11 11:11:11.111111
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True, but it would at least be in order (whether forward or backward), unlike MMDDYY, which would fail both orders.

ryan_975 said:
In that case, let's make sure to put the lead 20 in front of the year too. That way we're not confused about whether we're talking about 2008 or, for example, 1908. Then it all just breaks down. Because then you need to put in whether we talking about AD/CE or BC(E).
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Yes, but we were restricting to DDMMYY, not DDMMYYYY. Therefore, 2 digits per field.

matchstick said:
Um actually wouldn't the first instance of 11/11/11 be November 11th, of the year 11? Thought that was pretty obvious. We had 1900 years or 9 instances of 11/11/11 prior to 1911 you know. well technically more before, a lot more, but we count down in reverse for those years. so technically there is a 11/11/11 BC and a 11/11/11 AD, but did they have a 12 month calendar at that time?

Anyway counting up from 11/11/11 we have..

1/1/1 (doesn't actually count since we are talking about 11/11/11)
11/11/111 (wow thats a cool one too, does the 1 get dropped when this was written?)
11/11/'11'11 (same cool)
11/11/'12'11
11/11/'13'11
11/11/'14'11
11/11/'15'11
11/11/'16'11
11/11/'17'11
11/11/'18'11
11/11/'19'11
11/11/'20'11
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Note that I said the first time *since* ... not the first time (period). So, we'd have to go in reverse chronological order, starting from 2011, so the next one would be 1911. :cool:

Ahh, I love dates ... even the kind don't have an xx chromosome. :eek:
 
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