Subj:[RR] Fw: Fw: This is cool and thought you would like to know
Date:2/17/2002 10:05:24 PM Pacific Standard Time
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This applies most specifically to those countries where the day precedes
the month when displaying, such as 20/02, instead of 02/20 for February
20th. It's still interesting though. Robert Hamilton
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>>The following may alert you to an interesting moment in time which is
approaching. Believe it or not...8.02 p.m. on February 20 this year
will be an Historic moment in time.
It will not be marked by the chiming of any clocks or the ringing of
bells, but at that precise time, on that specific date, something
will
happen which has not occurred for 1,001 years and will never happen
again.
As the clock ticks over from 8.01 p.m. on Wednesday, February 20,
time will, for sixty seconds only, read in perfect symmetry 2002, 2002,
2002, or to be more precise - 20:02, 20/02, 2002.
The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was
long before the days of the digital watch and the 24 hour clock - at
10.01 a.m. on January 10, 1001.
And because the clock only goes up to 23.59, it is something that
will never happen again.
Time is
Only a moment,
And it's off once again!
Why not 21:12, 21/12, 2112? Wouldn't that be 9:12 PM, on Dec 21, 2112? (2112, 2112, 2112)
Or for that matter 1111, 1111, 1111? 11:11 AM, on Nov 11, 1111? (which was since 1001).
Or am I missing something in the "perfect symmetry"?
Michael
