Mark your calendars! Historic Moment in Time tonight

[Chuck Young]

I received this as well from another source:

Jan 20, 2001 at 8:01pm -- 20:01 20/01 2001 (European rendering) and the last
one would be 21:12 on 21/12 in 2112.

Still cool though...

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Chuck Young
Security Consulting
Genuity E-Services
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-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at blu.org [mailto:discuss-admin at blu.org]On Behalf Of
Jerry Feldman
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:25 AM
To: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Mark your calendars! Historic Moment in Time tonight


-- I'll try to remember it at our meeting tonight --
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.
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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