Today is 01022010, Again

In the European date format, today’s date reads the same forward and backward. It’s 01022010.

A story in Australia’s The Age says that only happens 29 times this century. (It happened in the MM/DD/YYYY format on January 2nd, and is even rarer in the US format.)

The Age points to Professor Aziz Inan as the world expert.  He produced the video clips below and keeps track of these things on his website. (That’s where I got the photo.)

If you want to mark your calendar, here’s the list of some other upcoming Europe/Canada palindromic dates:

1 February 2010 (01022010)
11 February 2011 (11022011)
21 February 2012 (21022012)
2 February 2020 (02022020) (common in both date formats)
12 February 2021 (12022021)
22 February 2022 (22022022)
3 February 2030 (03022030)
13 February 2031 (13022031)
23 February 2032 (23022032)
4 February 2040 (04022040)


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