Today is European 112 Day 🇪🇺

@janvlug @EUCommission

Nice rhyme!

@phl @Caprarius @mikaeleiman @EUCommission
YYYY-MM-DD: good for machines (and people working with them)
DD-MM-YYYY: good for people (easier for conversations and casual use)
MM-DD-YYYY: seek help…

(Jk, of course )

@EUCommission We take it for granted, but, Oh, boy! should we be thankful this service exists… Huge thank you to operators working these lines.

@dmian @Caprarius @mikaeleiman @EUCommission DD-MM-YYYY is just as wrong as saying it's now 2 minutes and 12 o'clock, or that someone is 81 centimetres and 1 meter tall

It's not easier, it's just something you're used to.

(Also, YYYY-MM-DD is perfectly fine for people in Japan, Korea, China and Hungary)

@mikaeleiman @EUCommission
Nope. Day, month, year is logical.

@EUCommission you hear all the time "the EU cost us soooo much, what does the EU do for us?"

People are so ignorant, cause they don't remember, how it was once. I am out of a generation that had the experience!

One phone number for emergency calls, you can visit a doctor in another EU country with your insurance card, no passport needed into EU, no problem with your EU driver license, you pay the same price in a foreign EU mobile phone net, like at home etc.

Just more of EU standardization!

@haaflife @EUCommission Are yours subcontracted to private operators that exploit their employees too? Might be worth looking into who runs it, because in Andalucia and Valencia that's exactly what "happens".

Just in case some EUropeans think the EU somehow *operates* 112. It does not.

https://cordopolis.eldiario.es/cordoba-hoy/sociedad/denuncian-personas-atendian-112-cordoba-durante-borrascas-leonardo-marta_1_12976000.html

@phl @dmian @Caprarius @mikaeleiman @EUCommission I disagree

@EUCommission This is also part of the GSM (mobile) standard so if you dial 112 anywhere in the world on your mobile it will connect you to the nearest emergency line. A signal from any network is required so not to worry if your reception is not great.

@EUCommission surprisingly this also works in the UK?

@kDelta @dmian @Caprarius @mikaeleiman @EUCommission Ah yes, the logical pyramid.

This was written at 53:00:13

@EUCommission You can also use that number in the UK, but many Brits don't know that.

@EUCommission @fishidwardrobe I was very surprised when I tried to dial the non-emergency police number but dialled 112 instead of 101, immediately hung up and dialled 101, then got a callback from the 999 operator to find out why I hung up

@jackeric @EUCommission that's kind of good to know they do that, i think?

@phl @dmian @Caprarius @mikaeleiman @EUCommission But what time zone are you in?

This was posted 12:09 UTC on 14/02/2026

@kDelta @dmian @Caprarius @mikaeleiman @EUCommission Surely you mean 09:12 UTC

@phl @dmian @Caprarius @mikaeleiman @EUCommission It was more the date I expected you to question me on, the International Fixed Calendar was a far better calendar system with 13 months I have the complication on my watch face 🤭 https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/international-fixed-calendar/id1107327564

@EUCommission I thought that was 999?

@fishidwardrobe @EUCommission Not too surprising as 112's introduction in the UK pre-dates Brexit by a couple of decades and is only a few years younger than the EU (as opposed to the EEC) itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/999_(emergency_telephone_number)#History

> The pan-European 112 code was introduced in the UK in April 1995[31] with little publicity. It connects to existing 999 circuits.

@fishidwardrobe @EUCommission

Obviously it works also in Switzerland:

(I did not try it in order to not block any really urgent help)