For those who use big endian dates (year then month then day), today is a special day in which the date reads the same from either direction:

2020/02/02

Um, don’t think that the format matters

02/02/2020

For those who use big endian dates […]

I thought that the “special” thing about today’s date was that it was palindromic regardless of what date format was in use.

It is also the 33rd day of the year and their are 333 days left.

regardless of what date format was in use

Well, regardless of which of four date formats that are important in “western” “civilization.” I rather doubt any of the many other formats are palindromic just now, but I’ve not checked. It would be a remarkable coincidence!

I rather doubt any of the many other formats are palindromic just now, but I’ve not checked. It would be a remarkable coincidence!

“For those who use big endian dates […]”

:-)

Anyway, some unnecessary detail on the subject.

It was cultures where folks don’t use the Gregorian calendar at all I was thinking of, with different New Year’s Days, different year zeroes, different months with different lengths, and so forth – traditional Hebrew, Hindu and Chinese ones I’m particularly aware of, but I’m pretty sure there are others as well. But I don’t actually know the details of any of them.

It would be a remarkable coincidence!

Well, in Japanese the local style date would be 令和2年2月2日 (2nd year of era, 2nd month, 2nd day), which would be palindromic if you ignore the kanji…

Nice video link, Steve. ;-) I shall have a celebratory doughnut.

Being the 2nd day of 2nd month in Japanese is a pretty remarkable coincidence if it’s really the traditional Japanese, rather than an adoption of the Gregorian Calendar. But I don’t know anything about Japanese.

For example, today is the 7th day of the 11th month of year 5780 in the Hebrew calendar…