122221

1. that's not an anagram, but a palindrome

1. Next, it appears, is 03033030

an·a·gram

a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another, such as cinema, formed from iceman.

If there actually was such a thing as an "anagram date" the next one would be tomorrow, 122321 which can be rearranged to be 121223 and 122123 and even

Perhaps you meant "palindrome day"?

Actually, it depends on the format of the date. Micky only used 2 digits for the year.

If the format used in the OP was m-d-yy, the next one would be 2222.

If it was m-dd-yy then it's 22122

If it was mm-dd-yy, well...I'll just leave that up to Micky. ;-)

good point.

People started using 4 digits for the year in 2000, and it made sense for 2001,2001... but I'm trying to cut back on waste, so I'm no longer using the 20. This will save time, and save on computer storage, and on the elecricity needed to write those extra 20's.

I thin it's 011110 but not until 2110.

You know that's not true. 4 digits were used for decades (centuries) prior to 2000. All of my official docs - birth certificate, marriage license, baptismal, etc. use 4 digits. Many of them have the 19 preprinted on the doc.

For 2020 you should have been using yyyy. Leaving the 20 hanging off the end left you open to someone adding a 21, 22, etc. onto the end of the date.

"I promise to pay you $100 per month until 12/31/20".

(OK, he's gone. Give me a black pen. "I promise to pay you $100 per month until 12/31/2022".)

Don't forget the wear and tear on monitor pixels, too ;-)

Two digits and the old 8 characters and dot exe or whatever was when computers had about 4 K of memory . Now memory is not much of a problem or expensive.

Checks usually have the number in digits and then written out for the ammount.

Yes, of course there were many places that used 4 digits, but those places that used only 2 digits changed to 4 digits in 2000. And check books that printed the 19, so you didn't have to write that, were no longer issued a few years prior to 2000. I want toc hange back.

That's why I didn't do it in 2020, but that was almost a year ago.

Not if you've writen 12/22/21.

Exactly. It's hard to glow and look pretty for hours on end. Pixels need their rest. And the copper wires.

What was wrong with 12221? (1,22,21 )

BTW for about 50 years IBM used MM-DD-Y assuming most people knew what decade it was. Core memory wasn't the issue, it was how many columns were on a tab card (old school memory). ;-)

The question was: "When will the next one be?"

What date format makes 12221 (1/22/21 or 12/2/21) a "next" after 12/22/21?

Single digit for the year? Really? I do see that IBM (InfoSphere) allows an 'n' of

In what situations is it "safe" to use a single digit for the year and not cause confusion?

You are right

Any time you didn't expect the data to be used for less than a decade. With cards the 1955 data might not even be stored in the same warehouse as the 1965 data.