Flag day (disambiguation)
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Flag day can mean:
- A flag Day day to fly a flag of a certain area or a day set aside to honor an event specifically involving a national flag.
- In the UK, "Flag Day" refers to a day when a charity raises funds by collecting in the street and door-to-door, donors being given a small flag or badge to wear, showing that they have supported the charity.
- Similarly, in Hong Kong "Flag Day" refers to a day when a charity raises funds by collecting in the street, donors are given a small adhesive flag to wear, showing that they have supported the charity. Such activities are co-ordinated and approved by the government's Social Welfare Department to stamp out bogus frauds.
- In India the term refers to a day when armed forces raise funds by collecting donations door-to-door nationally, as a sign of solidarity among the general public towards the welfare of the personnel, and in return distributing token flags.
- Flag Day is the title of the first single by The Housemartins, featured on their London 0 Hull 4 album.
- Jargon: Flag day is also a term used in discussing computer systems to denote a change which will require a complete restart or conversion of a sizable body of software or data. This usage of the term originates from an obscure such change in the Multics operating system's definition, which was scheduled for the US's Flag Day, June 14th, 1966. [1]
- In Malta, Flag Day honors the national patriot Capt. Joe Greno for leading the movement to end sufferage.
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