Hurrah! It’s finally 11/11/11, which makes it Binary Day. I’ve already seen a whole host of folks hitting social media channels to point this out. Relatively few of them are pointing out that they’re wrong, though.
Why isn’t it binary day, I hear you ask? Simple. Take a look at the date. It’s the 11th of November, 2011.
That pesky two! Despite Bender’s worst fever dreams, in binary, there is no such thing as two. So, sorry, folks, it’s not binary day. I suppose it would have been binary day one thousand years ago, but I’m willing to go out on a limb and suggest that not too many folks back in 1011 were using binary all that much. It probably wasn’t celebrated particularly heavily.
It might not be binary day, but it is worth pointing out that it’s Remembrance Day — remember your minute’s silence at 11am — and then, if you’re so inclined, you can join the world’s biggest orchestra ten minutes later.
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Jazz
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 8:45 AMThat means it’s only 7989 years till the next binary day! Woot!
Jackson Bison
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 9:04 AMAnd technically if it was binary day, then yesterday (among others) would have also been Binary Day – 10/11/11.
True Binary Day would be the same day in binary as it is in decimal, and that dear friends was in 1/1/1, and never will be again (note that’s 1 as in year 1, not 2001)
As they say, there are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
Apparently those who think it’s Binary Day are the ones who don’t.
iNiff
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 9:46 AM1/1/1 would be the day Jesus was born.. so Jesus is a computer?
narthollis
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 10:03 AM1/1/1 would have been the first day of the Roman calendar, after it was decided that, that was the day they would count from.
Nothing at all to do with Jesus – More likely to do with the Roman Census that occurred at the same time.
Matt
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 10:12 AM1/1/1 would be the start of many calendars, I imagine.
FWIW, we use the Gregorian Calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar) as opposed to the Roman Calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar).
In short, no one has ever been able to celebrate a Binary Day as these calendars wouldn’t have been in use until long after those dates had past.
Sam
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 12:04 PMYou’re all wrong, Seinfeld has already argued that the first day was 1/01/0000 back in 2000…
silne
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 10:24 AMAnd according to the Bible, Jesus was born in Bethlehem during the census. Probably not on 1/1/1, but He would have at least been born in the year 1AD if that’s when they started the Roman Calendar.
Glenn
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 9:07 AMBy this Logic the following dates would have already been binary days,
1st, 10th & 11th of Jan 2010 & 2011, 1st, 10th & 11th of Nov 2010 & 2011, 1st, 10th & 11th of Oct 2010 & 2011, and I don’t remember any bullsh*t ‘it’s binary day!’ announcements for those.
If anything, today is the last of these so called binary days for some time & ‘triple 3 in binary’ day. But i guess that doesn’t sound as great.
Churchado
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 9:24 AMI thought it was Nigel Tufnell day..
Stuart
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 10:47 AM+1 (or should that be +11?)
Grim
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 10:26 AMNot binary? Pah! Every day is binary day!
Today is just 1011/1011/11111011011
Max
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 11:25 AMUgh, don’t be such a buzzkill.
Sam
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 12:00 PM… I suppose it would have been binary day one thousand years ago, but I’m willing to go out on a limb and suggest that not too many folks back in 1011 were using binary all that much….
Actually, by that logic it would have been 900 years ago on 11/11/1111…
Just This Guy ...
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 4:19 PM:) good call
Dr Doom
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 9:14 PMwhat about these dates? 01/01/1000 – 10/01/1000 – 11/01/1000 – 01/10/1000 – 10/10/1000 – 11/10/1000 – 01/01/1001 – 10/01/1001 – 11/01/1001 – 01/10/1001 – 10/10/1001 – 11/10/1001 – 01/01/1011 – 10/01/1011 – 11/01/1011 – 01/10/1011 – 11/10/1011