Regarding the date.

[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!

Comments

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

I'm going to celebrate both!

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

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Feel free to join us and raise a glass on both - or a cookie...

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

At least on today we can agree on date order!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Yep - which is why it is the last worldwide date that works!

[shirebound]

And where I live, it's almost 12:12 o'clock!

[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.

[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*

[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...

[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.

[mrowe.livejournal.com]

And then there was 12.02.2012 - last week or at the beginning of the year...

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Or possibly 21.02.2012.... which is properly palindromic, at least I'm pretty sure it is!

[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....

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

THIS American will share 20.12.2012.
Oh wait. I recently joined YOUR ranks.
;)

[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!

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you!
:)
I'm very happy about it.
:)

[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!

[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.

[estelcontar1.livejournal.com]

How neat! Believe it or not, moron here hadn't noticed the coincidence! Thanks for showing it to me.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It is neat, isn't it?

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reminder!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It was, I thought, worthy of note!

[engarian.livejournal.com]

I'll just become an honorary Brit for the day, OK?

- Erulisse (one L)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

You'll be very welcome!

[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.

[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....

[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!]

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Yes - that was one of the very, very best dates ever!

[emmymau.livejournal.com]

We don't need to write dates "logically," we have cheeseburgers.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

And even the cats to eat them.... :)

[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*

[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.

[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.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Your way of writing it seems sensible and logical to me!