Pi day...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:06PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:40:49PM -0400, Renata Rocha wrote:
> >> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:29, Colin McGregor <colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> > Just to briefly note, today is Pi day (3.14). Enjoy...
> >>
> >> I noticed that on March 14 2015 at 9:26 we'll have a more accurate Pi date.
> >
> > Nope.  Not acceptable.  Year goes first.
> 
> We've already accepted that we're kludging a decimalized approximation
> of a transcendental number onto a mixture of Babylonian base 60
> notation, with components of Roman calendaring as further modified by
> Pope Gregory.
> 
> When all that muddling around comes in as preconditions, I can't see
> why it isn't totally acceptable to do whatever modifications anyone
> imagines would increase the length of the "string match."
> 
> After all, this certainly isn't about any notion of mathematics - the
> matching is totally a superstitious numerology thing.  (And the amount
> of discussion this has gotten seems to fit my idle thesis that the
> amount of superstition in societies remains fairly constant.  Those
> that give up on praying to Mary seem to find other superstitions to
> spend their time on.  But I digress...)

You have to pick an order.  You can go largest to smallest or smallest
to largest.  So year month day or day month year.  Pick one or ther other.
You can not go month day year, since that is just a mess.

Year first is obviously best since it naturally sorts in the right order.
Of course you also use fixed width numbers (so always 2 digits for month
and day and 4 for year).

-- 
Len Sorensen
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