Dates Bookmark (Photo credit: RBerteig)
My old school friend Dave reminds this number geek that today is 10.11.12. I adore interesting numbers but I did them to death last year, if you remember.
The date is the only interesting thing about today, unless you count the sausage and egg oven bottom barms we had for dinner; and they were interesting only in an air quotes sort of way, because I got a little hysterical during the egg frying.
The internet had nothing interesting to say about today, though I did keep picking up that in the year 1582 there was no October 11th in some European countries because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar.
I couldn’t understand why it kept telling me something thirty days and 430 years out of date until I realised I was looking at American sites and that America is backwards.
About dates, that is. In the US, today is 11.10.12.
How interesting.
The Laughing Housewife 
Linda, you’re priceless !!!!
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Oh…for a moment I thought I had lost a month. 🙂
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All I can add about the date is that my father was born 101 years ago today.
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The difference in the dates between the U.S and Europe can be tricky when making travel plans sometimes. We Americans really do have a quirky do it my way streak, what with feet, inches and pounds and dates.
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Your first sentence threw me off. 10? october? Isn’t it November?
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Yes, I also get confused here in America. I never get the date right. 🙂
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next month we will have a 12-12-12 no confusion anywhere then. Great write 🙂
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I did not even think of that until u mentioned it. it is weird though, the date
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And before you know it, it will be 12.12.12 and you’ll be getting out the baubles.
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Awwww, I love dates like this. I’m such a number geek. Was actually gutted I wasn’t in work so I had no reason to write it 😦
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Yes, we are backwards. It is not 10.11.12 for us. We’re behind everyone else not only in refusal to use the metric system but refusal to follow conventional dating systems. So for us it’s 11.10.12 which holds no special significance. I feel humiliated for my backwards, pigheaded country. It obviously should be day, month, year but for some unknown reason we refuse to see the logic of that and put the month first, which makes no sense. Can you tell I’m annoyed? Especially when I have to fill out a form from ANY other country and automatically do it our way and then have to redo it because I realize we’re backwards? That’s because I am annoyed that we refuse to become part of the world community. Oh, the arrogance.
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😀
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I wrote a cheque on the 10th and thought of you. I thought, ‘bet she can’t resist a number post today’ —
What on earth are ‘sausage and egg oven bottom barms’?
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I’m looking forward to 12.12.12 😉
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We’re not backwards…it’s more “inside out.” 🙂 Honestly, it makes more sense the European way. You go from smallest to largest. We go from middle to smallest to largest. Silly Americans…
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Not at all. Independent Anericans 🙂
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I would be ashamed to tell you how long it took me to figure out that “we” were doing the date differently! On so many blogs I honestly thought WordPress had made a mistake. I do try oh so very hard not to be one of those Americans who thinks we have it all right and everyone else wrong. I promise I do! Sometimes with numbers I’m just very slow! 🙂
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Hehe! It’s not your fault – if you grow up doing things a certain way, it will seem normal.
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Haha yes it’s true that some prefer to put the month before the date. Anyway I put it as 10.11.12 and I love such symbolic number patterns too. I had a great day on that date, despite the awful rain!
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