Christmas 2005. My baby sisters. Heather’s 16, Joy’s 21. Don’t ask about the ugly guy in the middle.
Received an email this week:
From the files of meaningless temporal notational coincidence:
This Wednesday, April Fifth, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.
This will not happen again for a thousand years.
Of course, next year on May Sixth, at three minutes and four seconds after two o’clock in the morning, the time and date will be 02:03:04 05/06/07…
and so on…
In fact, you’ll be able to do this each year up until 2014, when December thirteenth, at ten minutes and eleven seconds after nine o’clock in the morning, we’ll get a time and date of 09:10:11 12/13/14.
After that, we have to wait until the year 3006 to play again, unless you throw fractions of seconds into the mix, at which time the whole game changes.
Feel free to use this knowledge to boggle the minds of astrologers and other knuckleheads.
Not to be outdone, Andreas said:
what about in 2009 when you can generate
12:34:56 07/08/09
at the beginning of history it was
00:00:00 00/00/00
but I bet no one appreciated it.
and shortly before that (as people were certainly planning big end-of-the-BC-era parties) it was
05:04:03 02/01/00
in fact, that date, and
06:05:04 03/02/01
just passed us again recently.
and because I’m feeling particularly loopy, what about
03:14:15 9/26/53
Often erroneously referred to as “Daylight Savings Time”, DST intends to provide a better match between daylight and the active hours of work and school during the spring and summer months. The actual “saved” daylight is spent on evening activities which get more daylight, rather than being “wasted” while people sleep past dawn.
I suppose I kinda knew that, but never really thought it through until now.
