Q: Why do programmers always get Christmas and Halloween mixed up?

[Mel Wilson]

On 10-10-31 12:38 AM, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, aaron d wrote:
>
>> I did.
>>
>> dec(imal) 25 = 2 X 10 + 5 X 1
>>
>> oct(al) 31 = 3 X 8 + 1 X 1 = 25
>>
>> old joke :)
>
> Indeed :)
>
> So I was reflecting on how likely it was that this joke would pan out
> and I've decided it isn't as unlikely as it might first seem.
>
> October was the 8th months and December the 10th Month under older
> incarnations of the calendar and both Christmas and Halloween were
> deliberately put at or near the end of months so in hindsight it isn't
> so unlikely that the numbers lined up to make this joke.

Once upon a time, (ahh .. the old days) I got to troll alt.folklore 
computers with a variation on this..
<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.folklore.computers/browse_thread/thread/37281a88cdf96ff4/3b6b7518f16d84db?q=international+techie+day&lnk=ol&>

I could have done it a tad better had I known about the sdate command, 
and the true reason that Sept. 34 will never come again.

	Mel.
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