[time-nuts] pi Day

[Steve Rooke]

Well, that's my point entirely, we have already celebrated pi day here
at the beginning of January but it seems you Americans are late to
party, again :)

Ever had your leg pulled? :)

2009/3/4 Rex <rexa at sonic.net>:
> Ahh, my bad. That keeps the slash at the decimal point too. I must note
> that our date convention gets a bit higher resolution from just the day.
>
> 3/1 4:15:9.265 could be done. You'll have to wait until next year.
> Actually we can celebrate earlier in March with the same scheme.
>
> I hope we can avoid an international committee to set a new standard. In
> my view, any or all honoring the series are valid but I think we should
> require beginning from the beginning to make the options somewhat
> finite. And someone else already decided 3/14 was "pi day". Changing it
> now would be like redefining "talk like a pirate day"
> (http://www.talklikeapirate.com/).
>
>
> Steve Rooke wrote:
>> But the 3rd of January does exist and it was first named by William
>> Jones in 1707 who was Welsh so perhaps the pi day should not be
>> claimed by the Americans after all.
>>
>> 73, Steve
>>
>> 2009/3/4 Rex <rexa at sonic.net>:
>>
>>> I think you will need to stay with the American style dates for
>>> traditional pi day, no?
>>>
>>> According to my calendar 31/4 doesn't exist.
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve Rooke wrote:
>>>
>>>> Don't forget that some countries put the day in front of the month,
>>>> IE. it's 4th March here right now. This would mean that these days
>>>> would have to celebrated at different times in different countries.
>>>>
>>>> 2009/3/4 Rex <rexa at sonic.net>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I don't recall this discussion here before, but it should be a good time
>>>>> sink.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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