[Culturechat] Re: [Idyllchat] An Interesting Time Fact

[Scott Baldwin]

on 2/18/02 10:01, Barbara Roy at broy@dplanet.ch wrote:

This of course is only true in Europe, where the date is placed before the
month.  
In the U.S. it would be 20:02, 02/20, 2002 which is an interesting
palidrome:
200202202002,  the same sequence forward as backward.

Other palidromes occour at 20:02, 01/10, 2002 and  20:02 11/11, 2002

Cheers,

Scott


> When I got this forwarded to me from a friend, I
> thought immediately that
> it was a tidbit you might all enjoy:
> 
> As the clock ticks over from 8:01PM on Wednesday,
> February 20th, 2002,
> time will (for sixty seconds only) read in perfect
> symmetry. To be more
> precise: 20:02, 20/02, 2002. 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 (or the 24 hour
> clock): 10:01AM, on
> January 10, 1001. And because the clock only goes
> up to 23.59, it is
> something that will never happen again.
> 
> So, let's all enjoy the moment even if we are in
> different time zones!!!
> 
> Barbara Roy
> Sachseln, Switzerland
> 18/02/2002
> 
> 
> 
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