jdavidb's Journal: 7-7-7

Wow: 7-7-7 already. Seems like just a year ago it was 6-6-6.

Of course, 07-07-07 is really 2007-07-07, so there's no actual significance to it, but at least all the people who don't know the real way to write dates will have one day when they won't confuse each other by writing them different ways.

07-07-07

[RailGunner]

All I know is that I'll have a new Stryper CD in my hands tomorrow.

Stryper: The Roxx Regime Demos

And the guys are recording the next all-new album right now... which will be followed by a world tour.

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[pudge]

My former bandmate [pudge.net], Hobbes, who also is a huge Stryper fan, was born 07-07-70 (see him doing some rocking out here [youtube.com], lead singing and soloing). Note the "D" in our logo is made of three 7's.

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[RailGunner]

I have a couple of Disciple [disciplerocks.com] CD's. 'Scars Remain' is a pretty good album. They get played on 89.7 Power FM down here quite a bit as well.

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[pudge]

We were Disciple before they were. :-)

I always liked...

[johndiii]

...that my birthday was 3/3. I never had to worry about figuring out which way the date was written. Today is 20070706 - or at least that is the way I think it. :-)

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[FroMan]

Date parsing is hell.

One of the sections of code I maintain at work is date parsing, and it is miserable. There are exactly 2,234,814,134,058.3 ways to write a date. And every monkey out there with a compiler or interpreter thinks he can use any one of those ways. And since we are an archival company which often indexes data according to the date on the document we need to parse each one of those dates.

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[jdavidb]

Yes, I've been to that hell.

Meanwhile, ISO timestamps are almost heaven. :)