# What's the next date that would be fully palindromic like this?
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**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 6, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-date-that-would-be-fully-palindromic-like-this/822542 "2018-10-06T01:05:36Z")
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### Author:  [@Dunmurry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunmurry)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-date-that-would-be-fully-palindromic-like-this/822542/1 "2018-10-06T01:05:36Z")
Well there is a person who know who was born using the DD/MM/YYYY format on the 20th February 2002 and it is 20/02/2002 or 20022002 and it reads the same forwards as backwards. It can be referred to as a fully palindromic date as it reads the same forwards as backwards. What I would really like to know is what the next date is that will be the same as this. Obviously 30/03/3003 but I also think that 21/12/2112 is another. And can anyone confirm that this really will be like this and is it a once in a million years or at least once in a millennium occurrence?
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2018, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-date-that-would-be-fully-palindromic-like-this/822542/2 "2018-10-06T01:46:50Z")
The next one after that was 21/02/2012. The next one after the present day is 02/02/2020.
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### Author:  [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2018, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-date-that-would-be-fully-palindromic-like-this/822542/3 "2018-10-06T02:31:18Z")
01/02/2010 and 11/02/2011 were after 20/02/2002 and before 21/02/2012.
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-date-that-would-be-fully-palindromic-like-this/822542/4 "2018-10-06T02:38:14Z")
> **[What's a Palindrome Day?](https://www.timeanddate.com/date/palindrome-day.html)**
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> On a palindrome day, the date's digits can be read the same backwards and forwards. Some palindrome dates are rare.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-date-that-would-be-fully-palindromic-like-this/822542/5 "2018-10-06T02:41:13Z")
ETA: typed too slow.
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### Author:  [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-date-that-would-be-fully-palindromic-like-this/822542/6 "2018-10-06T04:02:30Z")
If you’re not wedded to that exact format, then 9/1/19, 9/10/2019, 02/11/20, and 02/22/20 will be palindromic.
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### Author:  [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2018, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-date-that-would-be-fully-palindromic-like-this/822542/7 "2018-10-06T06:33:29Z")
There’s a palindrome coming up on November 2nd, but it only lasts a minute:
8:10 (am) 2/11/2018
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-date-that-would-be-fully-palindromic-like-this/822542/8 "2018-10-06T12:42:36Z")
> [@Duckster](#):
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> [What Is a Palindrome Date?](https://www.timeanddate.com/date/palindrome-day.html)
So Monday will be one under the d-mm-yyyy system. Cool, cool, cool, cool.