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Re: Did you know?



Actually, it will also happen again on Dec. 12, 2112 at 9:12PM.

21:12, 21/12, 2112

But who's keeping track? I'm pretty sure I won't be here.

Jim


On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Wood, Thomas wrote:

> ..but also 11:11, 11/11, 1111 and more if you place months before dates as
> is usual in the U.S.
>
> Thomas J. Wood
> Archivist
> Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
> University of Illinois at Springfield
> P.O. Box 19243
> Springfield IL 62794-9243
> 217-206-6520 | wood@uis.edu | http://www.uis.edu/library/lib-arch
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Constance L. Jones [mailto:Business_media@MAHONINGHISTORY.ORG]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 1:34 PM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: FW: Did you know?
>
>
> Believe it or not but 8:02pm on February 20 this year will be a 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.  This historic event will never have
> the same poignancy as the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month which
> marks Armistice Day, but it is an event which has only ever happened once
> before, and is something which will never be repeated.
>
> 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.
>

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