Unusual dates

This Friday, the time from the start of the Unix Epoch will be 1234567890, as noticed by Linux Pro Magazine, and no doubt others.

Mathematics, being in many ways really the study of patterns is always interested in these kind of things. We are now several years on from 19-11-1999 where all the digits in the date are odd. That was the last such date for over a thousand years, the next being 1-1-3111, but then we are enjoying an era of lots of dates where all the digits are even right now, which started on the 2-2-2000 after the last one being 28-8-888 I guess.

Posted by Colin Turner