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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.