RE: German professor: Unluckiest Friday 13th since 1520

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

Anyone remember Friday 13, October 1989? That was pretty exciting, what 
with Jerusalem, Datacrime and Columbus Day.

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Gregory Hicks wrote:

> > From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>
> > To: <funsec () linuxbox org>
> > Subject: RE: [funsec] German professor: Unluckiest Friday 13th since 1520
> > Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:08:33 -0400
> >
> > Yes, the total still seems to be 13.  Amazing!
> >
> > However, don't Brits write dates backwards, ie. 13-10-2006?
> >
> > The world should really standardize of the 2006-10-13 format so that dates
> > are like times with the units going from big to small.  If one also uses
> > leading zero (eg., 2006-01-02), then date strings are alphabetically
> > sortable.
>
> Darn!  *Where* have I seen that before?
>
> > Richard 
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
> > Behalf Of Drsolly
> > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 4:51 PM
> > To: Juha-Matti Laurio
> > Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> > Subject: Re: [funsec] German professor: Unluckiest Friday 13th since 1520
> >
> > > Whichever way round the date is written - 13-10-2006 or 2006-10-13 - the
> > > total comes out to 13
> >
> > What if I write it as 10-13-2006, does it still add up to 13?
> >
> >
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