In Reply to: Re: 050505-It's an Auspicious Day posted by No on May 06, 2005 at 15:04:27:

And 050505 is really 05 05 2005 - but we didn't use the 20 either. Remember that this was the whole origin of the Y2k scare - people saved space by omitting the first two digits - thousand and hundred omitted so just 6/6/66 - the divil and all.