happy uniform-date day (november 11th)

[JEL]

Last chance in the next 100 years for you to celebrate one of our calendar's... oddities, if you will

November 11th, 2011, at 11:11

In short it will write as "11-11-11 11:11" (all ONEs, a single digit)

Next time that will happen is in year 2111.

It's not really perfectly uniform this time around. It was in year 11, year 111, year 1111, and will be again in year 11111 (9,100 years from now)

The next best thing after this one, although that will not be a single digit, is on december 12th, year 2012, at 12:12 pm = 12-12-12 12:12

Please don't get me wrong here, I'm not saying your computer will crash on this date or anything

But it IS a unique temporal mark on our western calendar none-the-less. And a fun 'oddity' because the time between these uniform dates grows by an order-of-magnitude (and 1) each time you pass one (from year 11 to 111, from 111 to 1111, etc. The next date is always 10 times (and 1) further away than the date before it)

So happy uniform-date day... or whatever we should call it (if it doesn't already have an official name)

 

[Urwumpe]

Hello and welcome to October.

BTW... I was baptized on a 11th November, 11:11 ... the priest was born near Cologne.

 

[JEL]

Yes I know it's october, but I wanted to be in good time in case someone wants to throw a party on this date or something

Hopefully he wore cologne... ok lame joke
Köln has some great openair concerts though Guano Apes played a very impressive concert there in 1997. Ok that's offtopic

 

[orb]

[eventtimer]2011-11-11 11:11:11.111?till|since;%d% days, %h% hours, %m% minutes, %s% seconds %c%[/eventtimer] 2011-11-11 11:11:11.111 UTC.

 

[Izack]

The first World War ended on that day too, and we hold Remembrance Day in accordance (in the Commonwealth anyway.) So...no party here.

 

[captjdk]

The first World War ended on that day too, and we hold Remembrance Day in accordance (in the Commonwealth anyway.) So...no party here.

Yes, Veteran's Day in the US. Several services planned for that day...maybe one could be at 11:11:11 .... on second thought....nahh.

Dave

Regardless of country...Thank a Vet.

 

[orb]

Remembrance Day

Veteran's Day

Neither of them here at then, but instead it's Independence Day. :lol:

 

[Wishbone]

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day
Of the eleventh month, eleven doctors say
He was born for good luck and that you'll see
I got eleven hundred dollars, don't you mess with me.

Lyrics courtesy of Willie Dixon

 

[Notebook]

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day"]Remembrance Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Nothing new I think?

N.

 

[Pipcard]

eleven doctors say

And those eleven Doctors would be: W. Hartnell, P. Troughton, J. Pertwee, T. Baker, P. Davison, C. Baker, S. McCoy, P. McGann, C. Eccleston, D. Tennant, and M. Smith.

 

[jedidia]

So happy uniform-date day... or whatever we should call it (if it doesn't already have an official name)

In switzerland, we call this kind of numbers "Schnappszahl" (liquor number). Apparently it is an old tradition from playing games (like dart, or bowling, or some card games), that when the total score of the game is a repdig at the beginning of a players turn, he has to get everyone a drink.

 

[orb]

Happy Uniform Day for all on This Side of the Pond.

 

[Alfastar]

Happy uniform day everbody

 

[River Crab]

In China, it's [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singles_Day"]Singles Day. [/ame]

 

[Urwumpe]

I celebrate the 3 x 11th anniversary of my baptism (see above)....

 

[orb]

Universe Today: Portraits of Our Sun on 11/11/11 at 11:11 UTC

 

[fort]

If only one could have the portrait of our universe on 00:00:00 at 00:00:00 and some dusts:crystalball:

 

[JEL]

And those eleven Doctors would be: W. Hartnell, P. Troughton, J. Pertwee, T. Baker, P. Davison, C. Baker, S. McCoy, P. McGann, C. Eccleston, D. Tennant, and M. Smith.

And the SECRET doctor only a few knows about: Rowan Atkinson!!!
Who would have thought hahaha (pun intended)
:thumbup:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do-wDPoC6GM"]Rowan Atkinson is Doctor Who - Classic Comic Relief - YouTube[/ame]