Twosday?

[canyonwalker]

"It's Twosday!" as numerous news articles and sales advertisements tell me today. "The numbers in the date are all twos." And, "The date is the same no matter where in the world you are," some add.

Oookay, let's look at that. In the US we write 02-22-2022; month-day-year. Uh, there a few non-twos are in there.

And in Europe the date would be written 22-02-2022. As anyone who's ever messed up writing their SSN or bank account number can tell you, 02-22-2022 and 22-02-2022 are not the same sequence of numbers. The third option for date format, year-month-day 2022-02-22 is also not the same string of numbers.

So, 0-for-2 on "Twosday" claims. Any other stupid-cute ideas mainstream media writers who apparently failed 2nd grade math (see what I did there? 😅) would like to share?

Comments

[sorcyress]

It's not even the same if you just do month and day (02 22 is different from 22 02). It's only the same if you use single digit month (2 22 vs 22 2) but that feels like...not useful for any real date documentation? I'm not an expert, but that feels very much like not the way to do it?

~Sor