Arbitrary, based on the convention of expressing the date.
Sure, using MM/DD/YYYY, today's a palindrome.
But if one uses DD/MM/YYYY, February the 1st is a palindrome: 01/02/2010
Or, if one uses DD/MM/YY, we'll see a palindrome in November: 01/11/10
MM/DD/YY -- happens in 9 days -- 01/11/10
I'm more excited about November 11th of next year -- something cosmic is sure to occur as the clock ticks 11:11:11 on 11/11/11.
(If we only knew which time zone is controlling.)
Whoopy-tee-doo. Like Napolean said, "Able was I ere I saw Elba."
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