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Palindrome Date Finder

A palindrome date reads the same forwards and backwards as a string of digits. Find the next one in whichever date format you use.

Why the format you use changes the answer

A date is a palindrome only as a specific string of digits, and different regions write the same date differently — so a date that's a palindrome in ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD) usually isn't one in US format (MM/DD/YYYY), and vice versa. That's why 02/02/2020 was widely celebrated as a palindrome date in the US, while a different date entirely is the next ISO-format palindrome.

How rare they actually are

In ISO format, true 8-digit palindrome dates are rare because the year's last two digits have to mirror the day, and the month has to mirror the first two digits of the year — a fairly restrictive constraint that produces only a handful of valid calendar dates per century.

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