OT but VERY kewl...

[DnDChick]

Here's something interesting to pass around the office (or school):

As the clock ticks over from 8:01PM on Wednesday, February 20th, 2002, time will (for sixty seconds only) read in perfect symmetry in European calendar notation (date first, then month).

To be more precise: 20:02, 20/02, 2002.

In American calendar notation, the date and time is still a palindrome, but not necessarily symmetrical: 20:02, 02/20, 2002.

And because our clock technically only goes up to 23.59, it is something that will never happen again.

Something similar will happen again on 20:03 20/03 2003, and so on and so forth.

It will happen again each year for at least the next 10 years, until 2012. It only happens for 12 years out of every 100, and each instance is unique.

 

[Someguy]

ooooooo....that's really cool...I like stuff like this...

 

[psychognome]

OOOOooooOOOOooooOOOOoooo....

 

[Tanager]

nifty !

 

[graydoom]

Heh, cool. It's always fun to play around with dates and see what you can get out of them.

And actually, I think this could happen again. We just have to wait till we reach the year 20000 or 200000 .

 

[omedon]

I love palindromes.

This is very cool indeed. Thank you for the heads up.

 

[Mark]

...because our clock technically only goes up to 23.59, it is something that will never happen again.

You complete us...

 

[Talaysen]

Actually, a pretty darn similar event will come to pass about 110 years, 10 months and 1 day later. (Plus an hour or so.)

21:12 21/12 2112

I expect that'll be the last time we'll ever see a sequence like that - unless we get a new calendar or start tracking time differently.

 

[Skullfyre]

*standing in awe of this*

Way cool!!!