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Comment by susam

The nice thing about today's date, 2020-02-02, is that it is palindrome in three date formats: YYYYMMDD, DDMMYYYY, and MMDDYYYY.

This should probably be called "Universal Palindrome Day" because it is a palindrome irrespective of the endianness (big, little, or middle) that is used in various countries.

Here is the list of all such dates until the year 9999:

  0101-10-10
  1010-01-01
  1111-11-11
  2020-02-02
  2121-12-12
  3030-03-03
  4040-04-04
  5050-05-05
  6060-06-06
  7070-07-07
  8080-08-08
  9090-09-09
The next such one is over 101 years away from now.

Here is my own blog post on this topic: https://susam.in/blog/universal-palindrome-day/ :-)

parent susam 6 years ago

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