01:02:03 04/05/06
If you use the Gregorian calendar and the MM/DD/YY date scheme (¡Hola americanos!), then this momentous moment happens in two and a half hours (your results may vary in other time zones); it’s a veritable conjunction of digits that will never happen again. (Uh — without putting too fine a point on it, the same exciting claim of non-repetition is true for any time/date combination.)
Now hang on — don’t fret if you missed out and didn’t read this notice until the climactic episode has passed. Because it hasn’t. Here in Canada and in other sensible places we (are supposed to, at least) use the DD/MM/YY system. That means you’ve got just under a month — ’til 1:02:03am on the 4th of May, 2006 — to dust off those old doomsday forecasts.
On the other hand, if you live somewhere like Britain where they use the DD/MM/YYYY system, you’re screwed — you’ll never see anything this cool in your lifetime…but hey, don’t feel so bad, at least you’ve got that Millennium Dome!
Anyone else remember “Why too…¿Qué?”
April 5th, 2006 at 15h54
My flourishing Jardinero Zurdo!!! I’m sorry to tell you that the exactly magical conjunction of digits you wrote actually will happen again….in one thousand years. It’s true we’re not going to be here to see it…at least I’m not planning to.
But if you’re really mad about having the experience of living this momentous moment twice in the same day, good news, you can. How? Well, you just have to use the A.M./P.M. trick and then… you’re leaving the same moment twice in a day, at least in digits….For sure it’s impossible to live the same moment twice - sometimes I wished I could - but in the other hand it’s better this way because it makes every moment unique by itself. Like a “chocolatina”.
Sweet unrepeatable moments for you all!!
April 6th, 2006 at 10h11
Hmm, I guess never happen again was a bit of an exaggeration. You’re right that it will repeat; in fact you only have to wait 100 years! And I can’t even say “never in our lifetimes” because lifespans keep on growing and perhaps by 2106 our brains will be kept alive in jars and plugged directly into the Internet — bwaa haa haaa … you can never log out! [shudder]
I’m a 24-hour-man myself, so that am/pm trick just feels like cheating. I’m with you — let’s keep every moment unique!