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09/09/09
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:06 am
by beatlefreak
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/200 ... ssospecial
The last date where all three numbers are the same for awhile.
Re: 09/09/09
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:51 am
by libratune
Isn't 10/10/10 coming up next year, followed by 11/11/11 and 12/12/12?
After that, it will indeed be a long wait until 01/01/3001 -- 988 years, give or take a few weeks.

Re: 09/09/09
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:12 am
by doctorwho
What Kris meant (and the Yahoo article states) is it's the last "single digit" date ... although 09 is technically two digits, right?
IMO calendar dates are completely subjective anyway, and really do not have the significance some try to instill in them.

Re: 09/09/09
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:46 am
by collin
Yeah, and it's kind of ridiculous anyways------is 2009 not a complete 4-digit number? Do 2000 of those digits not count for some reason?
There was a true 09/09/09, once upon a time (exactly 2K years ago!).
....seems like just another pondering for all the space cases out there.....meh.
Re: 09/09/09
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:58 am
by cjj
Re: 09/09/09
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:04 am
by jps
doctorwho wrote:IMO calendar dates are completely subjective anyway, and really do not have the significance some try to instill in them.

So I take take deadlines have little meaning for you?

Re: 09/09/09
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:22 am
by gellkeller
Pffft, HEX!!! Get some BINARY into you - 1001/1001/11111011001

Re: 09/09/09
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:13 pm
by kiramdear
What a trip. I opened my eyes at 9:09 this morning.

Re: 09/09/09
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:17 pm
by shamustwin
I tripped at 9:09 this morning.
Re: 09/09/09
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:36 pm
by cjj
gellkeller wrote:Pffft, HEX!!! Get some BINARY into you - 1001/1001/11111011001

Hex, binary, octal, pretty much all the same for me...
Now, I suppose we should really do this in base 9 then we'd have 10/10/2672
Re: 09/09/09
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:39 pm
by blueflamerick
Re: 09/09/09
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:41 pm
by electrofaro
Imo this is all a lot of humbug... last time I checked we were living in 2009, not in 09...

Re: 09/09/09
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:46 pm
by cjj
Re: 09/09/09
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:48 pm
by beatlefreak
It was the only way they could get that Y2K thing to work...
Re: 09/09/09
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 1:08 pm
by kiramdear