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What are you going to do on 10/10/10?
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Went to church, then to a Symphony performance, then home to watch some football.
A co-worker's wife delivered a baby girl 32 minutes before midnight. No, he didn't tell his wife to wait.
A co-worker's wife delivered a baby girl 32 minutes before midnight. No, he didn't tell his wife to wait.
Oh wow, the hilarity that will ensue from that. Also, 12/12/12 will be the last time we have matching days, months and years, that is until 1000 years later.
That's true, and 11/11/11 is the next one up, but I think people will see that 1/1/11 is all 1s, even though the real date is 01/01/2011 as the year has been pretty much four digits as a custom since at least Y2K.
And with current human longevity, when someone's birth date is let's say 10/10/10, there are those who were also born in 1910 (October 10th) as well as the more than likely newborns on this planet born during 2010.
Yeah, and I'm at a loss to understand why. If we weren't confused about what century was being referred to in the 60's - 90's, why all of a sudden does '01 in the present context call that into question?
I think after the Y2K thing showed little or no merit and it was just a baseless scare, I think it was OK if we had returned back to a two digit year shortly after that.
I recently filled out some legal papers, medical and insurance forms, and a jr. college registration form for a class, and they insisted on a four digit year. We all know that 10 means 2010, but those four digit forms, which I first started seeing in 1999, will probably be around for a long time.
I am old enough to remember people saying, "I remember back in school in '69, I did such and such." Now that we are in 2010, I wonder how many years it will be before people start referring to the year in a two digit format in normal speech?
I had a '74 Datsun and an '84 Nissan, but my neighbor has a 2008 Mazda. I think by 2021, people will refer to the year as '21. When I hear historical shows or talk to stamp and coin collectors, I hear 1919 and 1920, but for some reason 1921 sometimes gets referred to as '21, and 1922 as '22. I also see this convention in music when the reference is a composition or a composer. An example may say, "He was a hard drinking blues man born back in 1913 before he picked up the six string and started hitting the circuit, and by '37 or '38, he got his first record deal."
Well, I guess it'd be weird if you said your great-grandfather was born in '02 and died in '01 now wouldn't it?