ShiviPro / palindromic-birthday

An app that can tell if any specific combination of your dob is palindromic or not. If not, it returns the nearest one.

Palindromic Birthday(PB)

Want to know if your birthdate is a Palindrome ?

You might also ask, what is a Palindrome in first place ?

Introduction

Simply put, any sequence of characters (maybe alphanumeric or even symbolic) which reads the same when read from backwards as it is from forwards, is considered a Palindrome.

And that is what Palindromic Birthday is all about. It's a web app that can tell if your date of birth joined as a complete number is a palindrome or not.

Features

Well, if it's so simple then why do we need Palindromic Birthday, the app ?

Let me tell you that PB can help you find if your birthdate is palindrome or not in these 6 variations -

1. DD/MM/YYYY
2. MM/DD/YYYY
3. MM/YYYY/DD
4. DD/YYYY/MM
5. YYYY/DD/MM
6. YYYY/MM/DD

• So it will check if any of these variations would result in a palindrome.

• And if your birthdate is not a palindrome, it even gives you the nearest date to your Birthdate that is a palindrome.

• Also, it has dark theme too, for good old night owls, although I must warn you that it's my first attempt at that, so it might not be what you expect.

Please Note - The first 2 commits of this repo are marked as unverified. But you don't need to worry about the legitimacy of the code. I personally guarantee it's security. The reason for it being unverified is that, I use a GPG Key on my local Git repos to sign them. And the first 2 commits were initially signed, but due to some reason, I forgot to commit the first time & second commit took me 4-5 hours. So I had to do both of them at the same time. But I quickly realised that my progress wasn't transparent since after initial commit the second one was done in 2 minutes, which contained the core logic for this project and took 4-5 hours in reality. So I had to change the commit date. But there was another issue. Due to some reason, I wasn't able do an to interactive rebase of my Git repo using -

git rebase -i HEAD~2

to get the last 2 commits in history. So I researched and found out that running this filter-branch script could make it work -

git filter-branch --env-filter \
    'if [ $GIT_COMMIT = ad4f0da94bf94ba953908a61d76d15c0bead9e6c ]
     then
         export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="Fri Aug 13 20:38:53 2021 +0530"
         export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="Fri Aug 13 20:38:53 2021 +0530"
     fi'

This rewrote the commit history to make the initial commit of 5 hours ago, but apparently filter-branch is deprecated now, and can cause additional complexities, which I didn't know about. And hence all the commits at the time(2 at that moment of time) lost their signature.

By the way if anyone has a workaround for this, please feel free to open an issue and let me know. Would love to hear it.