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The Next Three Days are the x86 Days

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the those-are-the-days dept.

Pinky wrote in to note that "Today, tomorrow and the next day are the only days we'll get dates like this: 2/8/6 3/8/6 4/8/6 like the x86 computers :-)" And yes folks, in the August news cycle vortex, even this strikes my fancy. In recent years we've seen numerical giants like 3/1/4, 6/6/6 and 1/2/3, but now really, what do any of us have to look forward to? Is our future dull and meaningless without cool numbers in dates? Oh the humanity of it all ...

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  1. what about the lucky sevens? by metasecure · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Canada, where m/d/y is more common we already experienced this on February 8, March 8 and April 8, respectively.

    Life is good living three steps ahead of the taco.

    Personally I look forward to the lucky 7's, 7/7/7, a day where CmdrTaco and I can celebrate our slot machine winnings together.

    1. Re:what about the lucky sevens? by metasecure · · Score: 2, Funny

      I don't think celebrating either will get me any action so...a moot point indeed =)

    2. Re:what about the lucky sevens? by 1u3hr · · Score: 4, Funny
      Just curious...how many places do it d/m/y vs. m/d/y. I'd never seen the d/m/y thing till a couple of years ago....

      Basically, everywhere except the USA. You don't get out much do you?

      If you do plan on travelling, also note that in the rest of the world we use degrees Celsius for temperature -- 30 degrees is hot, not cold, so pack appropriately. But most surprising of all, not everyone in the world speaks English!

    3. Re:what about the lucky sevens? by shinnie · · Score: 3, Funny

      No kidding. This guy must of lived to close to the US border and was using their format. Remember the first time I crossed the border to legally buy beer in the US. The clerk looked at my ID and asked how I could have been born in the 13th month. I told her Canada has 13 months in its year as we have an extra month of winter :)

    4. Re:what about the lucky sevens? by Tower · · Score: 5, Funny

      >I am a native English speaker and have said "It's the 2nd of August, 2006" all my life.

      Well, then... congratulations - For the first time in your life, you are correct!

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    5. Re:what about the lucky sevens? by IngramJames · · Score: 2, Funny

      Here's a list of used date formats in various countries. Looks like Canada has them all. ;)

      And it looks like those blaming the USA for the nefarious spread of m/d/y have been shown to be wrong.

      Quite obviously, it's the blasted Federated States of Micronesia again, exerting their subtle yet vast power.

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    6. Re:what about the lucky sevens? by ReplicantSD1 · · Score: 5, Funny

      All my life, in my surroundings, if someone asked you the date something was going to happen, you'd say "August 22nd"

      Wow, what a boring place. What did you guys do for the other 364 days?

    7. Re:what about the lucky sevens? by WedgeTalon · · Score: 3, Funny

      Only two days? C'mon, you just move the holiday to a Monday so it's a three day holiday. Then you'll want to leave on Friday to take full advantage of it. But everyone's leaving on Friday and everyone wants to beat the traffic, so leave on Thursday. And if you're leaving on Thursday, why not Wednesday night? And you can't come back on Monday, that's still a holiday. And you can't come back on Tuesday, cause everybody comes back on Tuesday, so you outsmart everybody and you come back on Wednesday. So now you're leaving on Wednesday and coming back on Wednesday and suddenly a one day holiday is now a week! (Apologies to Scott Adams)

    8. Re:what about the lucky sevens? by Cecil · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually I believe The English Language was released under an Apache-style licence.

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  2. It's funny. Laugh. by linvir · · Score: 5, Funny
    Behold:
    It's funny. Laugh.
    Stay your flamethrower, thou saucy fellow. Nay, let us instead rejoice in the most accurate story in the history of this fine website.
  3. Saturday by The+G · · Score: 4, Funny

    Instead of getting dates of their own, Saturday and subsequent days will be known as "Pentium", "Pentium II", "Pentium IV", "Pentium 5", "Pentium 6", and of course "Xeon".

    1. Re:Saturday by ToxikFetus · · Score: 4, Funny

      Of course, Itanium already had its day on April 14, 1912.

    2. Re:Saturday by CellBlock · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why would be stuck on Pentium IV for six years?

      Because Intel keeps adding 1 to 4 and getting 4.9999056489, so it isn't quite 5 yet.

    3. Re:Saturday by Short+Circuit · · Score: 2, Funny

      I refuse to celebrate the Pentium days!

      I'll be happily enjoying K-5, K-6, Athlon and Athlon XP days, thank you. Though K-5 day will have to fall on Sunday; you're not supposed to do any work then.

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  4. Re:Except.. by jo_ham · · Score: 1, Funny

    We covered this story back then.

    This is the obligatory dupe.

  5. A slight oversight it would seem by A+Dafa+Disciple · · Score: 4, Funny
    "today, tomorrow and the next day are the only days we'll get dates like this: 2/8/6 3/8/6 4/8/6"

    Ummm... you mean this century right?

    I'm still surprised this made the front page. I mean, I'm a geek, but even I think this is lame.

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  6. Re:ISO 8601 Please! by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whats ISO 8601? Here in Europe we use ISO 0186 for date formats.

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  7. Oh dear by martinmarv · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's sad that these are the only kind of dates we have to look forward to :o(

  8. Re:Except.. by linvir · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nuh-uh! They ran a story about this back in 6 too, but back then we were still pretty bummed about jesus' death, so we didn't really celebrate it much.

  9. d/m/y? by Digital+Vomit · · Score: 5, Funny

    "today, tomorrow and the next day are the only days we'll get dates like this: 2/8/6 3/8/6 4/8/6 like the x86 computers :-)"

    Has Y2K taught you nothing? Using a single digit to store the year? You are among programmers! Hang your head in shame!

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  10. March 10th by NekoXP · · Score: 2, Funny


    So okay, this is news?

    Every year March 10th comes around and we don't get a bunch of news posts from Nintendo fans because it's MAR10 day yet again.

    It can't be that slow on a Tuesday in August. What is the world coming to?

  11. Donald Becker quote by DragonHawk · · Score: 4, Funny
    In a discussion involving both 3Com's 3C509 and 3C905 network cards, Donald Becker came up with this gem:

    "3Com only purchased rights to the numbers '3' '5' and '9'. Intel
    owns '4', '8', '6', and '2'. '0' and '1' are still in the public
    domain.    "

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  12. Re:its not the only time by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, there will be math coprocessor day next year, at least.

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  13. I'm a Mac user... by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm a Mac user, how long do I have to wait for 6/80/40?

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  14. Long live the UNIX timestamp by toofast · · Score: 4, Funny

    Today is 1154536012. None of this mm/dd/yy bullcrap.

  15. Re:What about the 586? by theonetruekeebler · · Score: 2, Funny
    The i586 DOES exist

    The problem is that there's no date for 5/8/5.99996546

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