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Snopes readers have likely come across a few claims about odd or unusual calendar dates. Will the 22nd day of the 2nd month of the year on 2022 fall on Tuesday (or Twosday)? Yep. Will Halloween fall on Friday the 13th for the first time in 666 years? Nope. Does an August with five Mondays, five Sundays, and five Saturdays occur once every 800 years? Nope. This genre of rumor may have made some people a bit skeptical when they came across a meme about a palindrome week in September 2019: The month of September will truly have 10 consecutive dates that can be read the same forwards and backwards. In other words, these dates are all numerical palindromes. While this meme is largely accurate, we do have some pedantic quibbles with this claim. For one, in order for these dates to be palindromes they have to be written in the M-DD-YY format. If these dates included the full year, a 0 in front of the first 9 months, or if these dates were written using any other format (such as DD-MM-YY or MM-DD-YYYY) they would not result in palindromes. Furthermore, while palindrome week is a catchy title for this meme, September 2019 will have 10 palindrome dates, not seven. Finally, palindrome weeks, or the less catchy 10 days of palindromes, are not entirely unusual. Every year of this decade (with the exception of 2010) has seen a palindrome week. In 2011, this string of dates occurred in January. In 2012, palindrome week took place in February. The following year (2013) these slightly unusual dates occurred in March. Time and Date explained:
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