John wrote "The palindrome will occur again on 2112-12-21 21-12, in 110 years, 10 months, 1 day, 1 h and 10 min. Anyone planning to be here for it?"
Do you think that hh:mm (24 hour format) will be used in the year 2112. Ideally the World should be using decimal format of time. Already Microsoft-Excel provides a TIME function which gives the decimal time format if we give hour, month & day. For ex =time(15,35,20) gives 0.6495 days (we can multiply it by 1000 to get number of millidays). =time(12,00,00) gives 0.5 days Madan --- kilopascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [USMA:18313] Re: Just a small correction on > 200220022002 > Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:30:57 -0500 > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2002-02-20 > > The palindrome will occur again on 2112-12-21 21-12, > in 110 years, 10 > months, 1 day, 1 h and 10 min. Anyone planning to > be here for it? > > John > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, 2002-02-20 11:32 > Subject: [USMA:18308] Just a small correction on > 200220022002 > > > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:12:58 > > Duncan Bath wrote: > > ... > > >>To night we will get, for a minute, a rare > "palindrome" : we will > > >>write time and date as 20 02 20 02 2002 (i.e. > 20H 02, 20 February > > >>2002) or 200220022002, which can be read in both > directions. > > > > > >Not a real palindrome either. > > > > > >1. It is based on an ad hoc date form > > >2. It relies on an illogical combination of the > date and time. > > >... > > We've been through this before, Duncan. Please, > stop saying that > dd-mm-yyyy is 'illogical', will ya? While we had > both agreed that > yyyy-mm-dd would be more in line with how we state > values overall, there IS > logic behind using the opposite format (from small > to big, remember?...). > > > > In any case, I found the above 'palindrome' quite > amusing indeed, > especially considering that we will NEVER have any > such type of event EVER > AGAIN! Therefore, let's please, just enjoy this... > curious moment in > history, shall we? > > > > Marcus > > > > > > Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably > > Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. > > Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
