RE: German professor: Unluckiest Friday 13th since 1520

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Richard M. Smith wrote:

> Yes, the total still seems to be 13.  Amazing!
>
> However, don't Brits write dates backwards, ie. 13-10-2006?

No, we write it forwards, as 13-10-2006. 
 
> The world should really standardize of the 2006-10-13 format so that dates
> are like times with the units going from big to small.  If one also uses
> leading zero (eg., 2006-01-02), then date strings are alphabetically
> sortable.

It would be better to have a leading zero on the year too, otherwise we're 
in danger of making the same mistake that caused the Millenium Bug.

02006-10-13

Of course, that would just postpone the problem. So maybe we need seveal 
leading zeros.

00000000002006-10-13 

That will put off the problem for, um, quite a long time.

> Richard 
>
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> To: Juha-Matti Laurio
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> Subject: Re: [funsec] German professor: Unluckiest Friday 13th since 1520
>
> > Whichever way round the date is written - 13-10-2006 or 2006-10-13 - the
> > total comes out to 13
>
> What if I write it as 10-13-2006, does it still add up to 13?
>
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