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Happy palindrome day either way: 12-02-2021 or 2021-12-02

Author: rrwright

Score: 81

Comments: 19

Date: 2021-12-02 06:36:42

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taneliv wrote at 2021-12-02 07:02:46:

Even for people using normal date formats, since 2021-12-02 is, amazingly enough, also today, and is also a palindrome day. Enjoy!

asplake wrote at 2021-12-02 09:31:40:

“Normal” meaning I think the US format, the format that confuses a lot of people elsewhere. YYYY-MM—DD is the safest, but in the UK at least we would interpret xx-xx as DD-MM

ssss11 wrote at 2021-12-02 10:13:51:

Yeah Australia too. The date in the title is Feb 12th :p

riidom wrote at 2021-12-02 18:30:14:

If people would just know when to use dash, dot or slash as separator, all confusion would end immediately.

Next stop: world peace :P

credit_guy wrote at 2021-12-02 12:13:03:

If you wanted to celebrate, but all the restaurants are booked, tell them you are quite flexible. Tomorrow (12/3/21), or during the weekend is fine too. And all the weekdays next week. Just make sure you get that reservation before next Friday (12/9/21).

rmeertens wrote at 2021-12-02 13:16:10:

A great day to read upon my old article on building the most complete palindromic sentence:

http://www.pinchofintelligence.com/worlds-longest-palindrome...

blaesus wrote at 2021-12-02 12:48:57:

Random note: Subaru China published their new BRZ today, which is distinguished by its boxer engine, with (somewhat) symmetric pistons.

celticninja wrote at 2021-12-02 08:45:02:

But not if you use 02-12-2021

q-big wrote at 2021-12-02 12:56:07:

> But not if you use 02-12-2021

This is not an ISO 8601 or RFC 3339 date.

muzani wrote at 2021-12-02 11:55:47:

Palindrome day is different in different countries, like Mother's Day.

mcv wrote at 2021-12-02 12:34:43:

It's like Labour Day. The whole world agrees, except the US, which has a different date for it.

atonse wrote at 2021-12-02 12:51:27:

Huh interesting. What is the US date based on? And what is the rest of the world’s date based on?

celticninja wrote at 2021-12-02 13:27:35:

May 1st is the standard in the rest of the world, US it's sometime in September.

Zababa wrote at 2021-12-02 13:42:15:

Many countries have their date based on the International Worker's Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day

. The US aren't the only one celebrating it on a different day, Japan does it too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Thanksgiving_Day

mcv wrote at 2021-12-02 14:44:03:

Funny thing about that is that the the international one, on May 1, is ultimately based on a strike in Chicago.

So the entire world celebrates Labour Day based on an event in the US, while the US alone uses a different date. And somehow that doesn't even seem that unusual to me; the US often is the first with a new idea, and as soon as others join in, they back down.

Zababa wrote at 2021-12-02 16:16:07:

> while the US alone uses a different date

As I said in my post, the US aren't alone in that, Japan also uses a different date. Canada also celebrates it on a different day, the same as the US. Ireland celebrates it on the first Monday in May.

evanb wrote at 2021-12-02 09:55:46:

It’s also easy to write today’s date as an ambigram! Just gotta symmetrize the 2 a bit. Think 7-segment LCD font.

ChrisArchitect wrote at 2021-12-02 16:43:23:

wondered just how widespread this would be accepted and got down a rabbit hole of international standards ISO-8601 etc and surprisingly (so often are ppl at odds around the world about this) it's pretty universal this one!

cmstoken wrote at 2021-12-02 09:08:42:

So happy about this! Have fun everyone.