Sequential Day

[R. Richard]

I'm sure that all of you got up early to witness this. At five minutes and six seconds past four AM, it was 4:5:6 7/8/9!

 

[3113]

Good day for someone to have a baby, yes? So they can always write down that their date of birth was: 07/08/09.

 

[oggbashan]

Not in the UK.

That date is in August.

Og

 

[sr71plt]

Ogs right, so we can celebrate it twice here.

Those things are neat. I have a relative who was born at 1111 on 11/11/11, which I've always thought was neat (and easy to remember).

 

[oggbashan]

The European date convention is more useful for computers:

Second; minute; hour; day; month; year.

But we usually understand US dates. 9/11 is actually 11/9 for us but we still call it 9/11 because that is the accepted usage.

In the past there was more confusion than there is now, with different countries using conflicting calendars because of not agreeing how to deal with leap years.

The French had to be different, changing their calendar completely after their Revolution and making the week ten days long; starting their year count from the date of the Revolution and then changing to the date of the founding of the French Republic...

Examples from my collection of French Revoluntionary newspapers:

No. 90 - Decadi, 30 Frimaire, l'an 2 de la Republique Française, une et indivisible. (20 décembre3 1793, vieux style)

No. 215 - JEUDI 2 AOUT 1792 Quatrieme Année de la Liberté

No. 362 - 2e Sancullottide de l'an 2 de la Republique Française, une et indivisible. (J. 18 7bre 1794, v. st.)
Og

 

[sr71plt]

Actually, Og, since there are two different systems and few can remember whose is whose, neither one of them is very useful to anyone.

 

[Liar]

Actually, 07-08-09 was almost two years ago the way we civilized peeps count it. Start with the biggest time unit, then break it down into the smaller ones. Year, month, day, hour, minute, second.

09-08-07 06:05:04 is coming in about a month. And since I'm working that day, I'll be up that early in the morning anyway. So I'll railse my breakfast cuppa in honor of the moment.

 

[Katyusha]

A few hours ago in the U.S., it was 12:34:56, 7/8/9

 

[oggbashan]

To make matters worse, there are the Muslim and Jewish calendars, among many others.

According to some Muslims we are in the year 1430.

Og

 

[sr71plt]

I'm reading Michael Gruber's The Book of Air and Shadows, which is interlaced with a letter from Shakespeare's period. I happened on a reference to the letter writer being in "year nine" in it last night and did a doubletake.

 

[jomar]

A few hours ago in the U.S., it was 12:34:56, 7/8/9

Yes!

July 8, 09 - all of the numbers lined up just right...123456789

Well, you have to give allowances for the 09, I suppose. Otherwise we'll have to get together again in 2090 or 9011 (or maybe 9012 depending).