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

83 points by rrwright 3 years ago | 19 comments
Enjoy reading today's date from either direction!

Edit: thanks to taneliv for noticing it works both ways! (original post only showed one way)

  • taneliv 3 years ago
    Even for people using normal date formats, since 2021-12-02 is, amazingly enough, also today, and is also a palindrome day. Enjoy!
    • asplake 3 years ago
      “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 3 years ago
        Yeah Australia too. The date in the title is Feb 12th :p
        • riidom 3 years ago
          If people would just know when to use dash, dot or slash as separator, all confusion would end immediately.

          Next stop: world peace :P

          • 3 years ago
      • credit_guy 3 years ago
        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 3 years ago
          A great day to read upon my old article on building the most complete palindromic sentence: http://www.pinchofintelligence.com/worlds-longest-palindrome...
          • celticninja 3 years ago
            But not if you use 02-12-2021
            • q-big 3 years ago
              > But not if you use 02-12-2021

              This is not an ISO 8601 or RFC 3339 date.

              • muzani 3 years ago
                Palindrome day is different in different countries, like Mother's Day.
                • mcv 3 years ago
                  It's like Labour Day. The whole world agrees, except the US, which has a different date for it.
                  • atonse 3 years ago
                    Huh interesting. What is the US date based on? And what is the rest of the world’s date based on?
                • 3 years ago
                • blaesus 3 years ago
                  Random note: Subaru China published their new BRZ today, which is distinguished by its boxer engine, with (somewhat) symmetric pistons.
                  • evanb 3 years ago
                    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 3 years ago
                      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 3 years ago
                        So happy about this! Have fun everyone.