curiouswombat: (Hmm 2)
[personal profile] curiouswombat
This is simply an observation that today's date has something about it that none of us here are ever going to witness again. It is, of course, 12.12.12.

And there is no such date as 13.13.13 so the next date of this type with be the next time the world reaches 01.01.01.

Of course, for many of us, there is still one date with a lot in common with this one; 20.12.2012 - but the Americans on my FL won't share that one with the rest of us as you write your dates down in an illogical order!

Date: 12/12/2012 06:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tx-cronopio.livejournal.com
I'm going to celebrate both!

(But you're right, our way makes no sense.)

Date: 12/12/2012 06:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Feel free to join us and raise a glass on both - or a cookie...

Date: 12/12/2012 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cairistiona7.livejournal.com
At least on today we can agree on date order!

Date: 12/12/2012 07:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Yep - which is why it is the last worldwide date that works!

Date: 12/12/2012 07:24 pm (UTC)
shirebound: (Default)
From: [personal profile] shirebound
And where I live, it's almost 12:12 o'clock!

Date: 12/12/2012 07:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Even better! I saw on the news that more weddings than usual took place today - and quite a few had been timed so that they said their vows, or put the ring on, at 12.12pm.

Date: 12/12/2012 07:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellynn-ithilwen.livejournal.com
as you write your dates down in an illogical order!

Oh my! *dies laughing* You're my hero! :)))
(although you drive on the wrong side of the road...) *runs away*

Date: 12/12/2012 07:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
although you drive on the wrong side of the road...

I know - but it seemed logical when the Romans introduced it a couple of thousand years ago...

Date: 12/12/2012 11:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] speakr2customrs.livejournal.com
No, it's the logical side for right-handed people because then you can steer with the right and change gear with the left. Driving on the wrong side of the road is probably why automatic transmission is far more prevalent in the US than in the UK.

Date: 12/12/2012 08:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrowe.livejournal.com
And then there was 12.02.2012 - last week or at the beginning of the year...

Date: 12/12/2012 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Or possibly 21.02.2012.... which is properly palindromic, at least I'm pretty sure it is!

Date: 13/12/2012 02:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrowe.livejournal.com
You have a point there... and it's something I might have come up with when not trying to communicate in the real world while still rewatching The Hobbit in my head....

Date: 12/12/2012 08:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pondhopper.livejournal.com
THIS American will share 20.12.2012.
Oh wait. I recently joined YOUR ranks.
;)

Date: 12/12/2012 09:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Welcome to the slower moving, but (at least when it comes to dates) more logical, Old World... we are very glad that you joined us!

Date: 12/12/2012 11:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pondhopper.livejournal.com
Why, thank you!
:)
I'm very happy about it.
:)

Date: 12/12/2012 08:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] huinare.livejournal.com
Oh good! I'm forever getting confused about the date because, though I'm American, I've lived briefly in other parts of the world that use the sane date system--and since that made more intuitive sense to me, I quickly became accustomed to it. So now, being in the states again, I'm just never sure what to think when I see the xx/xx/xxxx format. *dramatic flail* I don't know what to believe anymore!

Date: 12/12/2012 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
The American system is weird to the rest of us. When I was a child I learnt to do 'sums' in columns headed 'Hundreds', 'Tens', and 'Units' - and the American way of writing dates always seems to me as if you/they were to write numbers in Tens, Hundreds and Units instead!

But 12.12.12 works for all of us.

Date: 12/12/2012 08:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] estelcontar1.livejournal.com
How neat! Believe it or not, moron here hadn't noticed the coincidence! Thanks for showing it to me.

Date: 12/12/2012 10:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
It is neat, isn't it?

Date: 12/12/2012 09:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com
Thanks for the reminder!

Date: 12/12/2012 10:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
It was, I thought, worthy of note!

Date: 12/12/2012 11:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] engarian.livejournal.com
I'll just become an honorary Brit for the day, OK?

- Erulisse (one L)

Date: 12/12/2012 11:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
You'll be very welcome!

Date: 13/12/2012 12:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
You're assuming that nobody here will live another 89 years? Why? It's not that unreasonable, especially if someone here is in their teens or early 20s, given general improvements in longevity.

Date: 13/12/2012 08:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
You are quite right - the youngest person on my FL whose age I know would only have to make 111 so there is a chance. But then we are also being told that her generation are likely to have a shorter lifespan than ours....

Date: 13/12/2012 03:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] draconin.livejournal.com
I think the one of the best ones came up when I was just out of high school - 12:34 5/6/78 [and, being an Aussie, that was the 5th of June!]

Date: 13/12/2012 08:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Yes - that was one of the very, very best dates ever!

Date: 13/12/2012 04:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emmymau.livejournal.com
We don't need to write dates "logically," we have cheeseburgers.

Date: 13/12/2012 08:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
And even the cats to eat them.... :)

Date: 13/12/2012 06:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thismaz.livejournal.com
And at 12:12 yesterday, we all gave a little cheer, stopped work to see if the world was going to end, checked again, and went quietly back to work *g*

Date: 13/12/2012 08:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
It would have been a logical date. But it looks as if we are all still here. So I'd better post some Christmas cards I guess.

Date: 14/12/2012 02:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melusine6619.livejournal.com
A bit late for this, but yes, we do, don't we. But what to expect from a country that made whole changes to spellings just to be different. Although ever since my stint in the Army I've written the date as day, month(abbreviated), year, as that's how we had to fill out forms.

Date: 14/12/2012 08:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Your way of writing it seems sensible and logical to me!

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