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Happy WiFi day 8.02.11, the most exclusive holiday ever

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Your birthday comes around once every year, Halley's comet passes once every 75 years, but WiFi day still takes the cake as the most exclusive holiday. Happening only once on this fine day of August 2nd of 2011 and thus cementing it's position as the ruler of all holidays.

What about August 2, 2111?

Or February 8, 2011?

Yes. Depending on the date format of course it lands on quite a few dates. Fun fact is that WiFi was actually invented in Australia, who are on the date format that would have the day being celebrated in February.

Of course this post was more of a lighthearted 'Congratulation' to an excellent technology.

February 11, 2008. 2008-02-11, in accordance with ISO standard. The real day was 3.5 years ago.

Only useful for people who format their dates in crazy, mixed up mm-dd-yy. Even then, a bit too geeky for my sensibilities.

This is gonna be downvoted, but I must say, ”mm-dd-yy is totally nuts!” I can accept “Feb 8, 2011”, but definitely not mm-dd-yy. The next one is letter-size paper. Well, another holy war...

As someone born and raised in northern Europe I agree that YYYY-MM-DD is the only format that really makes sense. Then again, I also don't understand why everyone is not on the Metric system..

As someone born and raised in the States I agree that YYYY-MM-DD is the only format that really makes sense. Furthermore, I don't understand why we are not on the Metric system...

Only the USA, Burma (Myanmar) and Liberia, still don't use it.

The confusing part is (here in the states), all the kids do actually learn the Metric system in their grade school science classes, starting in elementary school (primary, I think they call it elsewhere). Everyone I know knows the Metric system, but they give me queer looks when I use it, e.g. in conversation. Not like it's insulting their American-ness or something either; I really don't get it. It's worst with temperature, where people have to fight their training to estimate the temperature in Fahrenheit.

Please write all of your comments in emacs.

[edit: for the reference, see http://forums.xkcd.com/ - Religious Wars]

Its just an Endian difference

I'm sure everyone will convert to middle Endian eventually. :P

You're late. It was in February ;P

My favorite WiFi network was one called "firestorm (password: nobosses)". That was in fact the password!

08.02.2011.

The comments in the original page are great!. SSID = "WeCanHearYouHavinSex" LOL!

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