OFF: Reason to celebrate?

[Kevin Perry]

Yes it has and yes it will:

10:01 10/01 1001
11:11 11/11 1111
21:12 21/12 2112 (except in the US of course :-))

----- Original Message -----
From: "K Henderson" <henderson.120 at OSU.EDU>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 4:11 PM
Subject: OFF: Reason to celebrate?


> Hey...
>
> (Note that this works in Europe only, and only in military time.
> But who's being picky?)  :)
>
> Grakkl (FAA)
>
> A bit of very interesting trivia......
> 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.