Happy Pi Day
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 03.14.08
It is Pi day, in those nations where the month comes first and it is 3.14, when we celebrate all things mathematical and round, and top it off with a bite of pie. We recall on this day Rolf Disch's solar powered house that tracks the sun, so that its triple-glazed front can face the warming sun in winter and show its well insulated back in summer. Then there is the wonderful water tower conversion by zecc arcitechten of Utrecht. A pie shaped kitchen would be an interesting place to work, and then there is Eli Attia's way too big Round House. Happy Pi day!
"those nations where the month comes first and it is 3.14"
...i.e. the United States. In Canada, because of US influence, you do, it is true, see a lot of people (especially many businesses) using this mixed-up date format alongside the logical day-month-year we have always used, just like the rest of the world.
A pity that Trehugger, allegedly international in scope, uses this confusing nonstandard date format rather than the near-universal customary dd-mm-yyyy or the ISO standard yyyy-mm-dd. (Even some departments of the US government use the logically ordered format instead of the month first at all costs format...)