When does the Mayan countdown calendar reaches all 00000000? Is there timezone for that?
-T On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 23:24 Steve Dum <dr.d...@frontier.com> wrote: > You (and OPB) set me thinking about 2/22/22 > Today OPB has talked about today being a palindrome. > Well it is, but that's not why it's so significant. > As you pointed out, it's the long series of 2's. > > But with OPB mentioning palindrome I realized there > are 9 consecutive dates in 22 that are palindromes, > a very rare situation. > (2/20/22 thru 2/28/22) at least for us folks who use > the m/d/y format for dates. I was motivated to check > with my date palindrome expert. > Dr. Aziz Inan at Univ of Portland (and he's a Electrical engineer) > Here is what he had to say about 2022 -- although > this link talks about dates in the d/m/y format. > https://www.farmersalmanac.com/palindrome-dates-in-2022-february-wins > (with some farmers almanac commercials thrown in). > He has an impressive list of date palindrome articles > https://faculty.up.edu/ainan/palindrome.html > > steve > > Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > I'm running this script in an xterm: > > > > while true; do date -u; sleep 10 ; done > > > > Tuesday Feb 22 afternoon, it may emit: > > > > .. > > Tue Feb 22 22:22:12 UTC 2022 > > Tue Feb 22 22:22:22 UTC 2022 > > Tue Feb 22 22:22:32 UTC 2022 > > .. > > > > Them's a lotta 2s, and there won't be more 2s for 200 years. > > And that will be a Friday, not a twos day. > > > > Or not, the stuff besides the "sleep 10" will take a few > > milliseconds as well. > > > > Anyway, if someone is feeling ambitious, they can write a better > > script with a more accurate clock mechanism. Perhaps start up > > at 22:21 UTC, highlight 22:22 UTC, finish at 22:23 UTC, then > > screenprint the xterm window. > > > > Please send code! > > > > Or if you don't get the script debugged in time, 22:22 PDT. > > But that isn't cricket, is it? More like basketball. > > > > Keith > > > >
