👉 Okay, let’s tackle this… numerical oddity: 2011012401.
Now, traditionally when you see a seemingly random sequence of digits like that, the immediate thought is probably something along the lines of, "Nope, not a phone number! Unless...it's a really weird, international prank call about competitive ferret grooming?!" (And honestly? Let that exist as an amusing possibility. It’s fantastic.) But here’s what 2011012401 actually most likely is : it's a date formatted in the notoriously awful and utterly impractical way of the Canadian Statutory Holiday System, specifically for the first Monday of January. (I know! Bureaucracy, right? It gets you everywhere.) Let’s unpack that, because this whole thing is a bit of a logistical nightmare. Here's what each part means: 2011: That's the year – 2011. We got here. You did too! (Hopefully without a really bad cold, unless you enjoy that sort of misery.) 01: The month, which is...one, obviously. (You don’t need me to spell it out. Unless we're teaching small children; then, by all means, let me elaborate on the concept of numbers as symbols for quantities. It's never too late to have a full-blown numeracy
