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When is the programmer's Day? In view of this problem, this article introduces the corresponding analysis and answers in detail, hoping to help more partners who want to solve this problem to find a more simple and feasible way.

Programmer's Day (International programmer's Day), also known as "spillover Day", is an official Russian holiday, the date is the 256th day of each year, that is, September 13 in the usual year and September 12 in the leap year. Selecting the 256th day means an one-byte (8-bit) overflow (starting at 0, up to 255).

The origin of festivals

Programmer's Day was founded on July 15, 1996 by Dmitry Mendeleuko, editor-in-chief of the Russian publishing house "computer World". At that time, the festival was planned to be named "computer user Day" on the first Friday of September every year, and it was called "Pure Friday", according to one of the parties. It is so named to stimulate computer virus makers.

When it comes to the origin of programmers' Day, it is thanks to Lundinbart, an employee who works for a parallel technology web design company. In 2002, he collected signatures and petitioned the Government of the Russian Federation to designate this day as programmers' Day. On 24 July 2009, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation proposed a new festival plan to establish a programmer's Day. On September 11, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the bill, which became an official holiday in Russia. The action received 9800 votes in five days.

Festival culture

Choose 256 (= 2 ^ 8) because it represents the meaning that a byte is made up of 8-bit binary numbers that programmers are familiar with. 256 is also the number closest to but not more than 365 of the powers of 2.

The 256th number in hexadecimal is 0xFF, so on this holiday, programmers wear white clothes with 24-bit RGB color code 0xFFFFFF.

Festival activities

The 256th day of each year (September 13 in a normal year or September 12 in a leap year) is International programmer's Day. On this day, people wear white clothes to celebrate. Some netizens said that five years after graduation, the programmer has changed from a handsome man to a completely bald "ape". Programmers who have been bald for five years have a miserable fate. The professional characteristics of IT men, represented by programmers, have once again aroused heated discussion.

White was chosen as the theme color of programmer's Day. In the red, green and blue 24-bit deep (RGB) color space, each primary color can have 256 levels (256 values from 0 to 255). When all three primary colors reach the maximum depth value, that is, hexadecimal 0xFFFFFF, it is white. So programmers all over the world will wear white to celebrate the day.

The 256th day of each year (September 13 in a normal year or September 12 in a leap year) is International programmer's Day. 256 was chosen because 256 is an 8-bit basic number familiar to programmers. Programmer's Day is an official holiday in Russia, on which people wear white clothes to celebrate. Some netizens say that programmers who have been bald for five years have a miserable fate.

On the day of the programmer, some netizens said that the programmer became a programmer five years later. According to the picture, when a man graduated, he was young and full of vitality. Two years later, there were some vicissitudes of life. But five years later, the programmer has become completely bald, has basically returned to the original ape, so it is known as the programmer.

Although the picture is a little funny, to some extent, it does reflect the professional characteristics of IT men such as programmers, such as stress, narrow communication, overwork and so on.

Existing country

Programmer's Day is an industry festival recognized by many technology companies and software companies internationally. The date is on the 256th (hexadecimal 0x100, or 28) day of each year, that is, September 13 in a normal year or September 12 in a leap year. It is an official holiday in Russia and is celebrated in many other countries, including China, Israel, Bangladesh, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Austria, Germany, Canada, Croatia, France, Guatemala, India, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Uruguay.

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