[plug] symetrical time

Trent Lloyd trentlloyd at iprimus.com.au
Mon Feb 18 22:20:34 WST 2002


At 10:15 PM 18/02/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>what about 21:12 21/12 2112?
>
>or have i misunderstood?

u lost me

>Trent Lloyd wrote:
>
>>At 8.02pm on February 20 this year it 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 8.01pm 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 10.01am on January 10, 1001. And because the clock only
>>goes up to 23.59, it is something that will never happen again
>>
>>-*- If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem -*-
>
>
>--
>     science chases money
>and money chases it's tail
>  and the best minds of my generation
>        can't make bail.
>ani

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