Programmer’s Day is now official in Russia
The President of Russia has signed a historical document yesteday, declaring the 256’s day of the year an official holiday – Programmer’s Day. It is interesting that the respective article has been removed from Wikipedia several times, in particular on the following basis:
Imaginary/joke holiday. Ridiculously few Google hits given its subject area, and no sources cited.
I wonder now if they’ll get it back online by tomorrow, when we are going to
CELEBRATE!
UPDATE: Someone has put together a new article promptly, but had to name it “Programmers’ Day”, which is not perfectly correct. The above link now redirects to that article.
Source: CNews (in Russian) Google translation
September 12th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Does the date change when there is a leap year?
September 12th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Yes, exactly, Sep 13 on non-leap years and Sep 12 on leap ones.
September 13th, 2009 at 5:24 am
You mean [most of] the programmers will not show up at the late afternoon and {drink tea/coffee}, {smoke} and bitch about M$ and Apple and *nux and all that crap for the whole day? Wow! What would they do? Go mushroom hunting?
PS: I am glad it is not 9.11
September 13th, 2009 at 11:10 am
@Zipeg: No, no, it is an _official_ holiday, so they are going to watch TV: President giving speech praising Russian programmers, Prime Minister awarding industry leaders and ACM World Championship winners, etc. Maybe they will even gather for a (virtual) demonstration.
More seriously, I would consider making it a day off at Excelsior. This year it is Sunday anyway, so we have a whole year ahead to think about that.
September 14th, 2009 at 1:25 am
There is already an article – it has apostrophe in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmers‘_Day different place.
September 15th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Congratulations!
We’re looking forward to working with you, Dmitry.
Dan
September 24th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
I’m wondering how this holiday is going to be celebrated. Soviet-era demonstrations come into mind.