Today is a special day, not because it’s Groundhog Day or Super Bowl Sunday. It’s a day, the like of which comes around only once every thousand years or so. As a math guy, I like numbers, and unless you’re afflicted with aibohphobia*, you might like this too!

02/02/2020

It’s a palindromic date, reading the same front to back as back to front…no matter what culture you’re in!

Americans, for reasons I’ve never understood, do month/day/year. Europeans follow a logical progression: day/month/year. So today is palindromic in both the US and Europe. But that happens from time to time.

What makes this one even more special is that it’s palindromic for those who write year/month/day, as they do in Asia or the way I sometimes name files: YYYYMMDD so that the computer alphabetizes them chronologically.

2020/02/02

So enjoy the day…and the game. There’s no particular spiritual significance to this that I know of, but it’s OK just to enjoy numbers, isn’t it?

This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118.24, ESV)

One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. (Romans 14.5, NKJV)

*aibohphobia is the (unofficial) word for “an irrational fear of palindromes”