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If you like this stuff, today's date is;

02022020
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Oldjohnw wrote:If you like this stuff, today's date is;

02022020


And in a couple of weeks it will be 22022020
How long before the next 2 digit date?
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22-02-2022 - in 2 years' time.

On the subject of palindromes, here's a famous one:
"Marge, let dam dogs in. Am on satire! Vow I am Cain. Am on spot. Am a Jap sniper. Red, raw murder on GI. Ignore drum. (Warder re-pins pajama tops.) No maniac, Ma! Iwo veritas: no man is God - Mad telegram."

I turned up one going over several pages: too long to post!
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661-Pete wrote:22-02-2022 - in 2 years' time.



Ah elementary my dear Watson!
You can half bash your brain into a pulp Pete and it still functions better than mine! :shock:
Glad to see.

And the next full date of only two digits?
Not my strong area, but could be a while?
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Next Palindrome date would be 12-02-2021, or 12.11.21 in short date digits.

I've always loved this sort of thing - I especially remember how much I was called a nerd for mentioning at work how special the day was - it was 12:34 and 56 seconds, on the 7th August 1990.
12:34.56 - 7/8/90.

Obviously the bullying continued... :roll:
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We also have 021120 later this year.

Gets more fun when you try to get time as well.
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There was a Facebook reference to this today claiming it was the first full date palindrome for 900 years - I haven't checked the veracity
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Cunobelin wrote:There was a Facebook reference to this today claiming it was the first full date palindrome for 900 years - I haven't checked the veracity

011110. Not a full palindrome.

Perhaps it was 20111102.
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Or 11.02.2011....

Only 9 years since this one :wink:
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Palindromic dates are a doddle. Text palindromes are a lot more difficult to contrive - anything beyond the "Madam, I'm Adam" genre needs a bit of thinking out. That very long one which I dug up, which runs to several pages: well it begins and ends like this:
Star? Not I! Movie – it too has a star in or a cameo who wore mask – cast are livewires.

Soda-pop straws are sold, as part-encased a hot tin, I saw it in mad dog I met. Is dog rosy? Tie-dye booths in rocks.

All ewes lessen ill. I see sheep in Syria? He, not I, deep in Syria, has done. No one radio drew old one.

Many moths – I fondle his; no lemons are sold. Loot delis, yob, moths in a deli bundle his tin. Pins to net a ball I won – pins burst input. I loot to get a looter a spot paler. Arm a damsel – doom a dam. Not a base camera was in a frost, first on knees on top spot. Now a camera was a widened dam.

Ask: Cold, do we dye? No, hot – push tap, set on to hosepipe. Nuts in a pod liven........
[etc. etc.]
........Pan is tune-pipe – so hot notes, paths up to honeydew.

Odd locks, a maddened (I was aware) macaw on top, spot no seen knots, rifts or fan, I saw. Are maces a baton, madam? Oodles, madam? Rare laptops are too late – got too lit up.

Nits rub – snip now, I’ll abate, not snip, nits I held.

Nubile Danish tomboys I led to old loser as no melons I held; no fish to my name. Nod lower, do I dare? No, one nods a hairy snipe. (Edit: one hairy snipe, eh?) See silliness, else we’ll ask cornish to obey deity’s or god’s item. I, God, damn it! I was in it! To Hades, acne trap, sad loser! As warts pop, a dosser I – we – vile rat, sack! Same row, oh woe! Macaroni, rats, as a hoot, tie. I vomit on rats.
I can't vouch for its literary quality! :lol:
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Cunobelin wrote:There was a Facebook reference to this today claiming it was the first full date palindrome for 900 years - I haven't checked the veracity

Yes, if you want to be picky and insist that a date palindrome works in both the UK and US date formats (day-month and month-day, respectively), then the last one was 11th November in the year 1111.
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Wasn't the classic literary palindrome attributed to Napoleon as a quote to his doctor Barry O'Meara

"Able I was ere I saw Elba"
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DaveReading wrote:
Cunobelin wrote:There was a Facebook reference to this today claiming it was the first full date palindrome for 900 years - I haven't checked the veracity

Yes, if you want to be picky and insist that a date palindrome works in both the UK and US date formats (day-month and month-day, respectively), then the last one was 11th November in the year 1111.



Not really, but I suspect Trump will as part of trade deal!


As I said, it was an interesting comment, and I have not verified it
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Cunobelin wrote:Wasn't the classic literary palindrome attributed to Napoleon as a quote to his doctor Barry O'Meara

"Able I was ere I saw Elba"


Unlikely for a francophone.

The first palindrome must have been "Madam, I'm Adam." Surely English was the lingua franca of Eden.
It's the same the whole world over
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
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OK - some research.

Quick Google and "Time and Date" come up with


Palindrome Days in 2020-2021

mm-dd-yyyy
February 2, 2020 (02-02-2020)
December 2, 2021 (12-02-2021)

dd-mm-yyyy
2 February, 2020 (02-02-2020)
12 February, 2021 (12-02-2021)

mm-dd-yy
February 11, 2020 (02-11-20)
February 22, 2020 (02-22-20)
December 11, 2021 (12-11-21)
December 22, 2021 (12-22-21)

m-dd-yyyy
January 20, 2021 (1-20-2021)


Also apparently there was a palindrome week
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