Tomorrow is 20111102

ah.. a numerical palindrome. quite puzzling don't you think?

That's the sequence you need to use to get files on your HD to properly sort by name (if the date is part of the name - which is common for me), anyway.

One of those symmetries of life.

You Aussie never get it right...tomorrow will be 20111101.

 Month/Day/Year it's 11/1/11

In my neck of the woods that's how it's read.

Yes, but it's been 20111101 here for 1152.

So right this instant it's 201111011152

Yes, that's the "one little part of the world"....;p

Without the slashes... and then the European and American reading would be the same, forwards or backwards.

And still nobody here has gotten it right....

.... it is the 1st day of the 11th month of 2011... which when correctly written is 1.11.2011.  Or.... the First of November Two Thousand and Eleven... if you want to get technical.

So what your, saying is you can tell use (Americans) the future, send me the Power-Ball Numbers. for 11/01/2011 oops 2011/11/01

Kansas

I can tell you who won the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday...... [if I cared what nag won, that is .... Flemington Race Course is about half a mile away]....;p

Neiggghhhh Neigh 

Says who?  When I went to school my maths teacher taught me [along with everyone else] to start counting from the lowest number, that being 1, then upwards.... being there is an infinite number of numbers, and you cannot start at an end which in essence does not exist 

So, using that as the most logical mathematical convention, the smaller number would obviously come first... which for the purpose of this deba...er, argument, it the day, followed by the month, which is next smallest and the next logical progression, then the year, which defines which period in the decade/century those days and months belong.

Like anything else in life... you start at the bottom and work up.  For example, and as an architect you'd know this, you don't first put up the roof and shove the walls in under later. 

So again, says who?

[yeah, you guessed it, I've nothing better to do than be a right royal pain in the....]

November 1, 2011  or 11/01/11 or 11/01/2011 or Tuesday, November 1, 2011

it's to mimic the way it's spoken. the USA say it and wright it the same way


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Don't Australians say it the same way we do, but not Write it the way they say it... ?

I am indeed shocked and disappointed by this.

Tomorrow is 2011 11 02

Now, if you want to include hours, minutes and seconds, how about:

2011 11 11 11 11 02

You have ten days three hours and twenty odd minutes to think about it as the world will probably end then

BTW, only GMT counts. The rest of you lot are on Micky Mouse time.

Can't speak for anyone else, but I say 1st of November 2011.... which is more correcter than everything else that's wrong... er, almost right.

So, while we're being testi.... um, technical about time and date, etc, is it correct to say, for example, "a quarter to 5" or should it be 4.45?

Don't wanna know I'm only asking.

The one that gets me, though, is how people look at you all peculiar if you turn up for lunch at a McDonalds in evening wear... and  after dinner mints, why people look at you all strange if you have one or two after breakfast.  I mean, WTF is wrong with having a bit of afternoon delight at bedtime?  Seems perfectly normal to me.

You're being deliberately obtuse again.

Here's a number ....1,234,567 .

Tell me....what's the '1' on the left?  Is it NOT 'millions' ....and moving right you end up with the '7' ...units....and the '6' is the tens, etc.

So....when does 'right royal pain' become simple plain twit?...;p

And there-in lies the problem.....;p

If you think that's cool....give it 10 days....11-11-11 no matter how your sort it

Yes... but it is still only 1 million... which is smaller than 2 million.

Be that as it may, I still want to put the day first, then the month, etc, etc... because if I sleep in a day or three because of insomnia and need to ask somebody what day it is, I'm not gonna feel like I've lost too large a part of my life if they get it wrong and say Friday when it's only Wednesday.  Nah. I'll keep the days before the years, thank you... not so bad then if you miss one or two.

Okay, so when I wake up in the morning in what order do I look at things? 

There is the calendar, the clock and looking out the window. 

So, it's     November     7:am        oh shit it's getting to that time of year COLD Weather crap

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Wrighte better ?