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Happy palindrome day either way: 12-02-2021 or 2021-12-02

by rrwright on 12/2/21, 6:36 AM with 19 comments

Enjoy reading today's date from either direction!

Edit: thanks to taneliv for noticing it works both ways! (original post only showed one way)

  • by taneliv on 12/2/21, 7:02 AM

    Even for people using normal date formats, since 2021-12-02 is, amazingly enough, also today, and is also a palindrome day. Enjoy!
  • by credit_guy on 12/2/21, 12:13 PM

    If you wanted to celebrate, but all the restaurants are booked, tell them you are quite flexible. Tomorrow (12/3/21), or during the weekend is fine too. And all the weekdays next week. Just make sure you get that reservation before next Friday (12/9/21).
  • by rmeertens on 12/2/21, 1:16 PM

    A great day to read upon my old article on building the most complete palindromic sentence: http://www.pinchofintelligence.com/worlds-longest-palindrome...
  • by celticninja on 12/2/21, 8:45 AM

    But not if you use 02-12-2021
  • by blaesus on 12/2/21, 12:48 PM

    Random note: Subaru China published their new BRZ today, which is distinguished by its boxer engine, with (somewhat) symmetric pistons.
  • by evanb on 12/2/21, 9:55 AM

    It’s also easy to write today’s date as an ambigram! Just gotta symmetrize the 2 a bit. Think 7-segment LCD font.
  • by ChrisArchitect on 12/2/21, 4:43 PM

    wondered just how widespread this would be accepted and got down a rabbit hole of international standards ISO-8601 etc and surprisingly (so often are ppl at odds around the world about this) it's pretty universal this one!
  • by cmstoken on 12/2/21, 9:08 AM

    So happy about this! Have fun everyone.