Talk:2676: Historical Dates

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Source for the Excel/Lotus 123 relation with Dec 30th, 1899: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/f1eef5fe-ef5e-4ab6-9d92-0998d3fa6e14/what-is-story-behind-december-30-1899-as-base-date?forum=accessdev Victor (talk) 08:14, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

I feel this one. My birthday happens to be within 24 hours of 1970-01-01, so I keep getting caught off guard for a moment whenever I see my birthday showing up in one of these contexts. -- KarMann (talk) 08:35, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

We're going to need the date stamp format for 1890 ticker tape for this one. Anyone? 172.70.214.183 11:59, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

MM/DD/YY, with leading zeros omitted, and no I don't know why, but I suggest Google Books Ngrams might have a clue as to when that abomination started. 172.69.22.61 12:03, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
Not necessarily with pairs of the slash '/' _ . . _ . but also hyphens '-' _ . . . . _ and periods '.' . _ . _ . _ were used as delimiters in MM?DD?YY, which if I remember right dates to the 1500s when accounting ledgers were invented. 172.70.207.8 12:10, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
Are you with the NSA and have a data warehouse of all the ticker tapes ever sent or something? 162.158.166.185 12:45, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
No, but my great grandparents thought ticker tape parades were littering, because Great Grandma worked in an office and Great Grandpa worked for sanitation, so we have a bunch of boxes in the attic filled with what she was supposed to throw out her window. 172.71.158.75 12:54, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
That would be 1299. But I'm not sure how this is going to help us explain the comic, unless you perhaps are suggesting we enumerate date representation clusters somehow? 172.69.22.61 12:32, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
Someone should ask GPT-3 for a list of the top ten dates. 172.69.22.71 12:59, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Just putting January 2, 2006 here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20530327/origin-of-mon-jan-2-150405-mst-2006-in-golang 172.69.22.161 12:28, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Do we need a comment about how Pope Gregory XIII obliterated October 5th through 14th? 172.71.158.25 13:30, 24 September 2022 (UTC)