Special Calendar Dates

An array of interesting dates come with the new millenium.

The start of the new millennium began the introduction of interesting dates depending on its date order format. Many find that calendar dates such as repeating dates, palindrome (reversible) dates, repetitive dates and sequential dates all have a significant characteristic that makes them unique and interesting, and even hold a deeper meaning.

However, the world has many date order formats that are used to write down the numerical form of calendar dates that can cause confusion when used in international correspondence, especially when the year is abbreviated into its final two digits. Some of the common formats are:

• Month/Day/Year - MM/DD/YYYY - Mostly used in North America.
• Day/Month/Year - DD/MM/YYYY - Mostly used in the European languages.
• Year/Month/Day - YYYY/MM/DD - Mostly used in the Chinese language.

It is also important to note that the two-digit number for the day and month can be represented by a single one-digit number if it is between the numbers one (1) and nine (9). Moreover, the four-digit number for the year may be represented by a two-digit number.

In general, the years 2000 - 2012 have many interesting patterns in the calendar date, unlike the 1990s that didn’t have many options because minutes and seconds end at 59, the calendar day ends at 28 and 31, and the calendar month ends at 12.

We had one sequential date this year (11 October but written as 10.11.12 in USA.  Australia has their sequential date today. And a repetitive date is 12 December (written as 12.12.12). So are you a believer in being lucky to do something special on these special calendar days?  Have you done or planning to celebrate something more formal in December?  My daughter has her Graduation night in December (12.12.12)