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Ten years? #blink# I count more than eleven centuries to go. ('Cause the real Pi Day has to be the one that matches how I write dates, of course. None of this 2-digit year abbreviation, MSB-in-the-middle stuff. :-P (3141-5-9, and even that feels like cheating because it leaves out the leading zero that I usually write on months before October and days before the 10th.).)

Assuming you're referring to a date in '15, I guess you're assuming the American notation (3/14/'15 9:26:53)? 'Cause for Europeans to have that be the "real" Pi Day, April would have to have an extra day in it that year (31/4/'15) ... And looking at the headers of a randomly selected email message, I see not only both month/day and day/month represented, but also time-of-day before the year and time-of-day after the year. (I'm looking at "From", "Received-by:", and "Date:". If I look at the attributions in the message body, I also see time-month-day-year. So one could also celebrate at 3:14:15 9/26/5358.) End the confusion, my friend, and adopt most-significant-first date notation! YYYYMMDD[.hhmm[ss]] or YYYY-MM-DD [hh:mm[:ss]] -- please, if nothing else, think of the children![*]


Anywho, I did expect a fair number of math-geeks to respond. Don't worry, that's figured into how I plan to look at the answers.


[*] Well, it makes about as much sense here as it does most of the times I hear it used non-sarcastically, so I figured it was worth a shot.

The second and third questions are just silliness, only the first question really matters or means anything. "Clicky thing" is sort of an LJ in-joke -- I started seeing it in other people's surveys and decided it was cute enough to perpetuate. I think that it started as something for folks who didn't have any suitable answers listed but wanted to click something anyhow, but it seems to have become the expected silly thing tacked on at the end, as I've used it here.

Just give me all your base and don't worry about it. ;-)

The third question was to head off the expected wiseass comments about the military abbreviation.