Except we stopped storing 2 digits dates prior to the millenium to avoid the dread Y2K problems.
So it's 12-12-2012. So that's not very repetitive is it?
IMO, Biggest farce and computer money making scheme in computer history!!!!! I had a 286 system running Quiken that did not have any issues, but boy did I make a killing in 1999 doing Y2K scare updates!!!!
Isn't today's date really just an arbitrary number, accurate going forward but what about the starting point? Google says the Earth is 4.54 billion years old, so shouldn't today be 12/12/4540000000 or something?
Well, then it should really be referenced from when time started, just as the Kelvin temperature scale has zero where temperature starts (or ends, as it were). So, 12/12/13750000000 or thereabouts..?
Well, then it should really be referenced from when time started, just as the Kelvin temperature scale has zero where temperature starts (or ends, as it were). So, 12/12/13750000000 or thereabouts..?
Good point! Might as well base it on the solar system. Distant space aliens may try to reform it though.
Except we stopped storing 2 digits dates prior to the millenium to avoid the dread Y2K problems.
So it's 12-12-2012. So that's not very repetitive is it?
Don't forget in Europe it's 12-12-2012
No, it is not!!! It's dd/mm/yy or dd/mm/yyyy (slash or solidus, _not_ hyphens)
Perhaps you are confusing European dates with ISO dates (as used in databases and which sort lexicographically) which specifically use hyphens to
avoid any confusion with other date formats: yyyy-mm-dd
Whether its “12/12/4540000000”, “12/12/13750000000”, “12/12/2012”, or “12/12/12”, it's all A$s backwards. It should be y/m/d so next year it should be 13/12/12 for the short form and 2013/12/12 for the long form. It's how we count, do the math, and sort.
Why keep the holdovers from the stone age....but that beer sounds like a good idea. Cheers!
I've been dealing with a lot of files with dates in the names "archive-2012-12-12.tgz" where not using a slash in the name is very helpful as is having the data in an order where directories can be sorted and come out the right way consistently.
To accommodate the aliens maybe we shouldn't keep counting time in earthly units like the arbitrary time it takes for our planet to travel around the sun.. I guess the only universal time unit is Planck time, which IIRC is around 10 ^−43 seconds. So a year would be, eh, hm... a large number of megaplancks.. but by combining enough of those SI units we should have something not only universally acceptable, but Universally acceptable.
We appear to have survived the end of the world...unless the Mayans meant 12/21/2012 (or 21/12/2012)...or somebody forgot that Gregorian adjustment thing.
Whatever it was, good job, citizens of Earth!!
I think this calls for another Forth challenge! I'll post more details in a few million petaplanks.
I just noticed that Pololu is having a 12/12/12 through the Mayan apocalypse sale. So buy your items before the world ends, but if the Mayans are right you might need expedited shipping.
Except modern day Mayans don't believe in this end of the world nonsense. They just say it's the beginning of a new cycle.
Anyway I was thinking, those Mayans all that time ago, were savvy enough to put the end of the world on the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice. Which I think in any normal world is when we would celebrate what we now call Christmas. Not to mention being the correct day to start the new year.
Not only that they put it on a Friday. I mean, who would want to have the end of time party on a Tuesday, for example?
Wait a minute...Friday is dumb. Work all week trying to get to the weekend for a couple days to relax and BOOM - this week you come of the WORLD-end!! Seriously??? I'm gonna be upset if those Mayans screw up my weekend!!
No, no. It's Friday, you sprint out of work and start partying as hard as possible prior to the BOOM part at the end of the night.
Would you really be able to relax over the weekend if you knew the world was ending on Monday?
I remember when I found out about the 12/12/12, it was at 12:12PM, I was writing a library for the Ping, in XC, and I was just writing in the header, with the name of the author, and the date (and time), and I wrote in 12/12/12 12:12! So, I hope I got my ping library right, otherwise I'll have to chance my "last-modified" date
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BTW, the real celebration today is at 12:12! Git yer sparklers & champagne ready.
So it's 12-12-2012. So that's not very repetitive is it?
Don't forget in Europe it's 12-12-2012
IMO, Biggest farce and computer money making scheme in computer history!!!!! I had a 286 system running Quiken that did not have any issues, but boy did I make a killing in 1999 doing Y2K scare updates!!!!
No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_United_Kingdom
Good point! Might as well base it on the solar system. Distant space aliens may try to reform it though.
No, it is not!!! It's dd/mm/yy or dd/mm/yyyy (slash or solidus, _not_ hyphens)
Perhaps you are confusing European dates with ISO dates (as used in databases and which sort lexicographically) which specifically use hyphens to
avoid any confusion with other date formats: yyyy-mm-dd
Cheers!
-Phil
Why keep the holdovers from the stone age....but that beer sounds like a good idea. Cheers!
Kurt
Good point re: the hyphens.
I've been dealing with a lot of files with dates in the names "archive-2012-12-12.tgz" where not using a slash in the name is very helpful as is having the data in an order where directories can be sorted and come out the right way consistently.
-Tor
We appear to have survived the end of the world...unless the Mayans meant 12/21/2012 (or 21/12/2012)...or somebody forgot that Gregorian adjustment thing.
Whatever it was, good job, citizens of Earth!!
I think this calls for another Forth challenge! I'll post more details in a few million petaplanks.
But, jeez that's a quintillion quintillian Plancks per inch, give or take an order or magnitude.
I just noticed that Pololu is having a 12/12/12 through the Mayan apocalypse sale. So buy your items before the world ends, but if the Mayans are right you might need expedited shipping.
I believe RUSH had an album named 2112!!!!
Anyway I was thinking, those Mayans all that time ago, were savvy enough to put the end of the world on the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice. Which I think in any normal world is when we would celebrate what we now call Christmas. Not to mention being the correct day to start the new year.
Not only that they put it on a Friday. I mean, who would want to have the end of time party on a Tuesday, for example?
Would you really be able to relax over the weekend if you knew the world was ending on Monday?