Hiya
I think you're right.. Dunno, they love giving hype to small stuff,
technically 2001 was the beginning of the new millenium, however they hyped
2000 as the big thing.
Later,
Ahmed.
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net
<perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:51 PM
Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] PALINDROME Date/Time TRIVIA
Hey fello Win32:GUIers
You may have heard in the media (internet, news, etc.) recently that a
date/time palindrome would occur on Feb 20, 2002 at 8:02pm. Written in DDMM
YYYY HHMM format as 2002 2002 2002 , reading the same forwards and
backwards. From what I heard, this was the last time this would occur in
history due to the 24 hour clock limitation. I also heard that the last time
this occured was on Jan 10, 1001 at 10:01. Written in DDMM YYYY HHMM
format as 1001 1001 1001. But after some calculating of my own on the
subject, I found the following to be the case:
DDMM YYYY HHMM
0110 0110 0110 October 01, 0110 at 1:10
891 years pass till
1001 1001 1001 January 10, 1001 at 10:01
110 years pass till
1111 1111 1111 November 11, 1111 at 11:11
891 years pass till
2002 2002 2002 February 02, 2002 at 20:02
recently reported
as last date/time
palindrome to be
seen in history
110 years pass till
2112 2112 2112 December 21, 2112 at 21:12
actual last
date/time palindrome
891 years pass till
3003 3003 ???? 24 hour clock limitation
110 years pass till
3113 3113 ???? 24 hour clock limitation
I assume 2112 2112 2112 is a palindrome since it reads same both frontwards
and backwards?
What do you guys and gals think? Is it?
Eric Hansen
Dallas, TX USA
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