There is just over a day left until 2023 makes it’s entrance. Let’s see how many weeks it takes me to stop writing 2022 when a year is called for!
30 December 2022
by wpAdmin
0 comments
Tag Archives: dates
22 February 2022
by wpAdmin
0 comments
Twosday
Depending on how you write your dates, you might have noticed that today is 22022022 (22 Feb 2022). I normally use a backwards notation (year, month, day) that sorts well on computer systems and gives the slightly less notable 20220222 … Continue reading
20 February 2020
by wpAdmin
0 comments
Brought to you by…
Today’s date is another one of those notable ones, brought to you by the digits 2 and 0: 2020-02-20 Not quite as good as the palindromic one from near the start of the month but still worth a quick flag … Continue reading
2 February 2020
by wpAdmin
0 comments
Today only…
Today is one of those special dates that won’t come round again on our calendar – 2 February 2020 or, written in my preferred shorthand format, 20200202. I think it will be 12 December 2121 before we get a similar … Continue reading
5 November 2014
by wpAdmin
1 Comment
Films for Days
5th November is a date that is very easy to remember in a UK context. In 1605 there was an attempt to blow up Parliament and, having been thwarted and brutally repressed, the annual remembrance of the date has been … Continue reading
22 December 2012
by wpAdmin
0 comments
A Missed Date
I entirely missed the opportunity to celebrate a date earlier this week: 20/12/2012. Better late than never!
12 December 2012
by wpAdmin
1 Comment
12/12/12
I couldn’t let today’s date go unmarked on my blog; it is the last time we will get such a simple pattern for some time to come (2/2/22 comes to mind). Stepping outside the UK standard of day, month and … Continue reading