GAK67 Report This Comment Date: June 16, 2009 01:00AM
Yes it will - exactly 30 days later when the rest of the world recognises the
same sequence - 07/08/09 to most of us is 7 August 2009.
woberto Report This Comment Date: June 16, 2009 01:57AM
You freak, I was hanging onto this little piece of geekdom and WAITING until it
was releveant to post it.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: June 16, 2009 10:59AM
and what about 05:08:09 10/11/12
Onyma Report This Comment Date: June 16, 2009 11:35AM
Technically the last one would be 08:09:10 11/12/13 so we get another 4 years
of geeky number date play.
Onyma Report This Comment Date: June 16, 2009 11:37AM
And... this date sequence will happen again... in 2109, 2209, 2309... etc.
None of us will be around to see it though
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 16/06/2009 11:38AM by Onyma.
GAK67 Report This Comment Date: June 16, 2009 07:55PM
How about the opposite? 16:15:14 13/12/11 - 15 minutes and 14 seconds past 4pm
on the 13th of December 2011 (and all of the other ones with lower numbers) -
and yes I know the highest in the us would have to be 15:14:13 12/11/10.
pulse Report This Comment Date: June 17, 2009 03:14AM
The person who made this image obviously hasn't thought about it much.
Or maybe they have, which would be even sadder.
But, as was said above, 04:05:06 07/08/09 will indeed be Friday, 7th of August,
2009 (and 2109 and 2209 and ..) and not the 8th of July as the whacky
Americanites would have us believe.
GAK67 Report This Comment Date: June 17, 2009 03:56AM
I have been told, but not had a chance to verify it, that US passports have DoB
and expiry dates in DD/MM/YYYY format - about the only place they have had to
conform to international standards. Maybe some of you can confirm or refute
this.
pulse Report This Comment Date: June 17, 2009 06:00AM
Not sure about that, though it'd make sense since pretty much the rest of the
world use dd/mm/yyyy
It's very simple.
The 7th day of the 8th month of the 2009th year = 7/8/2009
You don't say the 8th month of the 7th day of the 2009th year = 08/07/09
Silly monkeys.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: June 17, 2009 10:55AM
How about the 7th month 'and' the 8th day of 2009th year.
FrostedApe Report This Comment Date: June 17, 2009 02:04PM
US passports use "23 MAR 2017", the dis-ambiguity of which appeals to
my military side, but the computer geek in me prefers "YYMMDD", most
significant to least, just like numbers, which means they sort correctly without
depending on the system recognizing them as dates.
Onyma Report This Comment Date: June 18, 2009 12:31PM
Agreed with Frosted... also a coder here and I always like decreasing order by
significance. Also a Canuck too and I never understood why me neighbours to the
south used MM/DD/YY. It makes perfect sense to me to sort the items in either
in increasing or decreasing order.
woberto Report This Comment Date: June 18, 2009 09:57PM
In spoken word, "July the fourth"is just as acceaptable as "the
fourth of July".
But I can't understand not having a standardised notation.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: June 20, 2009 10:32AM
Standardized notation, metric system, what's next standardized language? Maybe
the world should speak English and nothing else. Let's start with these damned
Mexicans.