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* Guess What?yeti
`* Re: Guess What?John McCue
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  `* Re: Guess What?Lawrence D'Oliveiro
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Subject: Guess What?
From: yeti
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Organization: Democratic Order of Pirates International (DOPI)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 02:18 UTC
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From: yeti@tilde.institute (yeti)
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Subject: Guess What?
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:00:47 +0042
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It's "Chinese Programmer's Day"!

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day#Chinese_Programmer's_Day>
| | Chinese Programmer's Day
| | In China, the programmer's day is October 24, which has been
| established for many years. The date was chosen because it can also be
| written as 1024, which is equal to 210 and corresponds to the Ki
| binary prefix. It is also a consistent date regardless of leap years.
..

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Subject: Re: Guess What?
From: John McCue
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:53 UTC
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From: jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com (John McCue)
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Subject: Re: Guess What?
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yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
> It's "Chinese Programmer's Day"!
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day#Chinese_Programmer's_Day>
> |
> | Chinese Programmer's Day
> |
> | In China, the programmer's day is October 24, which has been
> | established for many years. The date was chosen because it can also be
> | written as 1024, which is equal to 210 and corresponds to the Ki
> | binary prefix. It is also a consistent date regardless of leap years.

Interesting, I wish all programmers a good day. Maybe this
will become a thing like PI Day.

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- Paraphrasing Star Wars

Subject: Re: Guess What?
From: yeti
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Organization: Democratic Order of Pirates International (DOPI)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:40 UTC
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From: yeti@tilde.institute (yeti)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Guess What?
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:22:19 +0042
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John McCue <jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com> wrote:

> yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
>> It's "Chinese Programmer's Day"!
>>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day#Chinese_Programmer's_Day>
>> |
>> | Chinese Programmer's Day
>> |
>> | In China, the programmer's day is October 24, which has been
>> | established for many years. The date was chosen because it can also be
>> | written as 1024, which is equal to 210 and corresponds to the Ki
>> | binary prefix. It is also a consistent date regardless of leap years.
>
> Interesting, I wish all programmers a good day.

\o/ ___( 2 U 2! )

> Maybe this will become a thing like PI Day.

IIRC the international programmers' day is DOY 256. I'm too lazy to
look that up now, hot food is waiting.

I looked at such dates for playing with cron(tab). E.g. NetBSD's
birthday, Groundhog Day, last DOM, the local repair-café on "even"
thursdays (wasn't there yet, but cron reliably mails me), ...

Unluckily nice solutions heavily different depending on using BSD or
GNU `date`, but it's a nice puzzle!

.... says someone who sometimes "plays" DC just for fun. >;-)

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Subject: Re: Guess What?
From: Lawrence D'Oliv
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 22:34 UTC
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From: ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
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Subject: Re: Guess What?
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 22:34:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:22:19 +0042, yeti wrote:

> IIRC the international programmers' day is DOY 256. I'm too lazy to
> look that up now ...

ldo@theon:~> date -d "1-Jan-2024 + 255 days"
Thu 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 NZST

Subject: Re: Guess What?
From: yeti
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Organization: Democratic Order of Pirates International (DOPI)
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 09:32 UTC
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From: yeti@tilde.institute (yeti)
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Subject: Re: Guess What?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:14:12 +0042
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:22:19 +0042, yeti wrote:
>
>> IIRC the international programmers' day is DOY 256. I'm too lazy to
>> look that up now ...
>
> ldo@theon:~> date -d "1-Jan-2024 + 255 days"
> Thu 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 NZST

But I did NOT mean looking up it's current date (I'm fluent enough with
GNU and BSD `date`), I meant looking up whether I remember the
definition (DOY 256) correctly.

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