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Subject: Identical date digits
Category: Reference, Education and News > General Reference
Asked by: ecp-ga
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Posted: 24 Feb 2003 08:33 PST
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Question ID: 166390
What term is used to describe when date digits are all the same, as in
02-02-02 (February 2, 2002) or 03-03-03 (March 3, 2003)?

Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 24 Feb 2003 10:07 PST
Hello Ecp-ga,

Could you be thinking of a Palindromic date?
An example would be the date 20/02/2002 which is very rare.  
You can read the day, the month and the year forwards or backwards, in
numeric form, and the result is the same, discarding punctuation.

Thanks

--Bobbie7-ga

Clarification of Question by ecp-ga on 24 Feb 2003 11:50 PST
I don' think so.  I believe a palidrome is a word, phrase, verse, or
sentence that reads the same backward or forward. For example: A man,
a plan, a canal, Panama!

03-03-03 read backwards would be 30-30-30

Ed

Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 24 Feb 2003 12:59 PST
Perhaps this article may interest you:

Scientists And Psychics Note Rare Time Symmetry 20-02-2002
http://www.anomalousreality.com/ar/1111/date_2002_2002.html

Clarification of Question by ecp-ga on 24 Feb 2003 15:11 PST
Bobbie7, I think you're right. How do I pay you?

Ed
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Subject: Re: Identical date digits
From: bcguide-ga on 24 Feb 2003 13:43 PST
 
Hi,

While I didn't find any name attached to the unusal configuration, I
did locate two mentions of this...

http://www.abcdunlimited.com/liberty/refs/groundhog.doc

http://www.corkscrew-balloon.com/01/01/1thai/

The name for the rare occurrence of repeating digits in a calendar
date, as 8/8/88, is palendri-cal phenomenon, according to J.N.
Friend's NUMBERS: FUN & FACTS, chap. 8, p.101. SOURCE: INLAND
MESSENGER, July/Aug. 1988, p.13.
http://www.sjvls.org/cgi-bin/bens_02/100806

which is not the same as repeating digits.

Interesting question...

Good luck!
bcguide-ga
Subject: Re: Identical date digits
From: bcguide-ga on 24 Feb 2003 13:53 PST
 
Hi,
Another article...

Experts divided on just what 02/02/02 adds up to 
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/northwestlife/134398158_numerology01.html

Still no closer to an answer.

Hope someone can find it!
bcguide-ga

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