From: yeti@tilde.institute   
      
   John McCue  wrote:   
      
   > yeti  wrote:   
   >> It's "Chinese Programmer's Day"!   
   >>   
   >>    
   >> |   
   >> | Chinese Programmer's Day   
   >> |   
   >> | In China, the programmer's day is October 24, which has been   
   >> | established for many years. The date was chosen because it can also be   
   >> | written as 1024, which is equal to 210 and corresponds to the Ki   
   >> | binary prefix. It is also a consistent date regardless of leap years.   
   >   
   > Interesting, I wish all programmers a good day.   
      
   \o/ ___( 2 U 2! )   
      
   > Maybe this will become a thing like PI Day.   
      
   IIRC the international programmers' day is DOY 256.  I'm too lazy to   
   look that up now, hot food is waiting.   
      
   I looked at such dates for playing with cron(tab).  E.g. NetBSD's   
   birthday, Groundhog Day, last DOM, the local repair-café on "even"   
   thursdays (wasn't there yet, but cron reliably mails me), ...   
      
   Unluckily nice solutions heavily different depending on using BSD or   
   GNU `date`, but it's a nice puzzle!   
      
   ... says someone who sometimes "plays" DC just for fun.  >;-)   
      
   --   
   I do not bite, I just want to play.   
      
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