Report: Today is Binary Day!

It were idiots that limited the year to two figures. It were idiots that didn't format the date correctly like it should (yyyy-mm-dd) that caused so many problems for us programmers (sorting doesn't work correctly otherwise). So let's not follow the idea of a "binary" day. Is isn't and it won't be until 10000-01-01. However, in a 20bit field you can encode a date easily using REAL binary! Which makes every day a binary day!

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever.

Happy 10-11-10 (46 decimal) Day.

Weird. I just thought it was my birthday :P

Over here it was 11-10-10 go figure

So, 58 Day in Australia, and 43 Day in Japan.

And here I thought it was just Monday..

"It might seem like cheating a little bit to use a two-digit year, but I'll worry about Y3k later." Wrong again. The next wraparound is not in 2999, but 2099. So it should say: Y21h (K is wrong too, because the SI clearly states "k", not "K"). BTW, I leave the POSIX wraparound for what it is. Hopefully we've converted to 64bit by then.

"Those who do not know history, are doomed to repeat it."

Hopefully, 50 years from now, programmers will have re-discovered the art of efficient computing, and will once again be using two digits for the year.

It must have been a slow news day.