Once every thousand years
 

On Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 AM, the time and date will be

01:02:03 04/05/06

This won't happen again for 1000 years.

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...what about 12:34 05/06/07?

I think a hundred years would do it, for two-digit years.

Now, the year 6789 - that'll be impressive!

Sure that's good too, but what we're going for here is the 0's

01:02

yep, is kinda neat,

unless you're a foriegner,.... where they do the day, month, and year.

01:23:45 06/07/89

Was a better one :P

ok, so how much time do we before Steveevils countdown happens?

What todays date.

And more to the point, which one of the many sites< that we've invaded, posts the actual time of the post being posted.

Flint, help us out... you know shit.
Where can I go and post something, that the time of the post will show StevieBs millinium occurance?

SC has the time :)

oh, but no seconds, just hour and minute

youre all retarded!
its 05/04/06 today. you backwards americans! DAY/MONTH/YEAR! who the hell would put month/day/year. it doesnt make sense!! thats like saying the time is 43:01:54, as in 43 minutes and 54 seconds past 1.

and convert to metric already! youve already screwed up one mars mission with your "miles"

It's not nice to make fun of retarded people. :stop:

Our "backwards" standards were made by people fleeing oppressive royalty in Europe. Keep your facist time and space designations. Talk to us when you get to the moon, or Mars. You're lucky we share our pics of where our future Martian shopping malls will be.

The universal date format is YYYY-MM-DD with preceding zeroes in the month and day.

In that format, it's always largest to smallest granularity. The hour:minute:second works with it as well, and the date value always sorts correctly.

However, there is this little Y10K problem that will crop up and kill us all.

What kind of programers will get fat on Y10k? :right:

I believe that dd/mm/yy is based on the assumption that what day it is is the most operative information in a date, and from there what month it is is, hopefully, a more known variable, and, lastly, what year it is is included really just for legal purposes. It's arranged in order of immediate importance.

Wait a second, nevermind. We don't do it that way.

There are no programmers left. They were all cruelly and ruthlessly fired on 1/1/00 when everything worked fine. They're in hiding, probably in remote Pakistan, waiting for the unix timestamp overflow problem that will *really* devastate us. It's worse than the Y2K problem because managers don't understand it. It will happen at 2038-01-19 03:14:07. You have about 32 years to live, good luck to you all.

Thanks, like I didn't have enough to worry about, already.:rar: :thepain3: :worried:

:thumb:

I just had to point out that it makes me happy that someone else follows this. It is, really, the only date format that makes sense.

@Undertoad: The solution, of course, is that we all convert to Lindows.

Oh, do you often wonder what year it is? :eyebrow: It makes sense for archival records but in daily usage it's clumsy.

*posting in the year 2006*

ahem! damn, now if i could only find my sundial watch. what day is it? where am I!

Happy 2006 to you Cheyenne!

Not if you use the full format. It is difficult to confuse "2006" with a day or month. Sorting is a breeze no matter where you use this format, supported or not.

YYYY-MM-DD HH.mm

That format (starting with YYYY) is not preferred when in a verbal conversation (actual talking).

Anyone remember those?

Oh, like, "In the year of our lord, two-thousand six..."?

There's a common example.

No, like... you're friend is signing a check, and asks "What's the date?"

What do you say?

"Wednesday, February fifteenth, two-thousand six."

...but I'm not writing that. I'm not aware of anyone that does, actually.

Well, the verbal one is better to me.

MM/DD/YYYY verbally.

Nice of you to throw in the day of the week, when your friend asks for the date.

I just give them the day. I always assume the know the month and year.:cool:

So, you actually say "Four-slash-five-slash-two-thousand six" or "Four-five-two-thousand six" or even "oh-four-oh-five-two-thousand six"?

No, I put them in that order though. Month first, date second, year last. Similar numerically to today's date: 04/05/2006

And really that's what this thread is all about. Most everyone should agree that when giving the date, keep the year part last. And make strides to change it wherever it's not that way.

In speaking with someone, sure. In writing and keeping items chronologically, no. Just as I may say "It's one-o'clock" when it is around lunch time, I'll never write anything other than "13:00" when keeping records straight is important.

No, he says "em em slash dee dee slash why why why why"

oh well, some people never want to be daring.

I'm a dd-month (yes, spelled out)-yyyy person, except when doing documentation at work where the standard is mm-dd-yyyy. We just got a new computer system which, for unclear reasons, does not use (and cannot convert, it's a really stupid piece of software) military time, which is the protocol for our written documentation.

2:07pm? No.
14:07 EST? Nope.
19:07 UTC? No way.

The time should be stated as @796!

(anyone who gets that referenced failure of a 'technology' gets a cookie)

dd yy mm

is this some sorta tecky rap hipppppttyyyyddddhooop.?

Hey boys, and girls, its Today, March (something or other) 1988, and something bigs gonna happen in 12 hours.

ok, is the millinum thing gonna happen at gmt time or the atomic Colorodo time?

what the hell is gmt? When Big Ben Bangs, so the ships know where they are in the middle of the ocean?

Okay, TB's drunk.