Re: Guess What?

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>
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| Chinese Programmer's Day
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| 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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I do not bite, I just want to play.