[plug] OT: Palindrome Day, anyone?

[Leon Brooks]

> Believe it or not, 8.02pm 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 8.01pm 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 01,
> 1001.

> As the clock only goes up to 23.59, it is something
> that will NEVER happen again.

Someone, somewhere, evidently got sick of calculating actuarial tables and 
turned their hand to the calendar...

Cheers; Leon