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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 yesterday? by bcat24 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The 80186 was also an Intel processor, wasn't it?

  2. Re:what about the lucky sevens? by yfkar · · Score: 5, Informative
    Dd/mm/yy seems to be far more common than mm/dd/yy.

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

    m/d/y (month, day, year) is used by:

    * Canada (Although most official documents use the y-m-d format, the m/d/y format is also understood due to influences from the United States.)
    * Federated States of Micronesia
    * Palau
    * Philippines (formerly d/m/y. May still be found in certain contexts)
    * United States (Although Independence Day is often referred to as "the Fourth of July.")

  3. Re:what about the lucky sevens? by amliebsch · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's what the military and most "with it" government organization use. I've also adopted myself because (a) it is completely unambiguous and (b) I'm an asshole.

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    If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
  4. Re:what about the lucky sevens? by sholden · · Score: 4, Informative

    Every place that speaks English does too, except the USA (and a handful of Pacific nations who caught it from the US).