How do I pay you?  I accidently closed the question about the palindrome date.
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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 28 Feb 2003 18:29 PST

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tutuzdad-ga

Dear Ed,

Thank you for getting back to me.

In order to pay me, I just have to answer this question and I will
collect my fee. You don’t have to do anything else.


In your original question I mentioned Palindromic dates. 

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.

In addition I assembled the following list of articles addressing
palindrome dates:

This excerpt is taken from the CNN article: 200220022002: A Rare Time
Indeed

“The time, date and year will form a rare triple palindrome -- 20:02,
20/02/2002 -- reading the same backwards and forwards. The last time
this rare alignment struck was in the morning of November 11, in the
year 1111, mathematicians have said.”
Source: CNN Website
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/02/20/world.time/


Palindrome dates:
“A palindrome is a word, number or sentence which reads the same in
reverse order. Of course, there are also palindrome dates when
ignoring all separation symbols. “
This excellent article describes various different formats of
palindrome dates.
http://home.planet.nl/~faase009/Ddates.html

You can view a complete list of Palindrome dates in a variety of
formats here:
http://home.planet.nl/~faase009/Ddates.html#allMMDDYYYY


Facts and figures about 2002 the last palindromic year that most of us
will live to see!
Source: World of Numbers
http://www.worldofnumbers.com/year2002.htm

Palindromic Dates
http://www.bdb.co.za/items/palindromic_dates.htm

Dr. Boman on Palindromic Dates
http://mallard.ds.psu.edu/~ecb5/POM/graffius_oct_01.pdf.

Year 2002 is a palindrome. So what?  
http://www.parkhurstvillage.co.za/PV/palindromes.htm

Here is the article I mentioned previously:

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


Search Criteria:

Palindromic dates OR date
Palindrome dates OR date

I hope you enjoy the above articles on palindrome dates

Best Regards,
Bobbie7-ga

Great researcher! I received my answer in mintues.

Thanks Ed for the nice rating and tip!
I'm glad my answer pleased you.
--Bobbie

You're very welcome. Bobbie.  I appreciate your time and I apologize
again for closing the question inadvertantly.  This was my first visit
to Google Answers.

Ed Page

We hope this was not the last. :>)).

The date format is important.

The US has used mm/yy/yyyy and Europe has used dd/mm/yyyy for many
years.

2002 Feb 20th isn't palendromic in the US format, nor in the
International format.

Don't forget the newer ISO 8601 / RFC 3339 formats of YYYY-MM-DD which
should be the default in most countries.

Indeed the ISO format was designed to eliminate risk of one format
being read a another.