Today is European 112 Day 🇪🇺

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@EUCommission surprisingly this also works in the UK?

[phl@mastodon.social]

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

This was written at 53:00:13

[pamela1960@kolektiva.social]

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

[jackeric@beige.party]

@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

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

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

[kdelta@privacysafe.social]

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

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

[phl@mastodon.social]

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

[kdelta@privacysafe.social]

@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

[skylerhandler@woof.group]

@EUCommission I thought that was 999?

[edavies@functional.cafe]

@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.

[heri@net.miaumuh.ch]

@fishidwardrobe @EUCommission

Obviously it works also in Switzerland:

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

[zephyr_anemoi@mastodon.social]

@Pamela1960 @EUCommission This works in Canada also, if you happen to forget how to call 9-1-1. I discovered that by accident about a decade ago.