Morning Y'all..Posted on 02/20/2002 2:47:46 AM PST by RaceBannon
Subject: FW: Time Immemorial?
INTERESTING FACT.
Believe it or not but 8.02pm on February 20 this year will be an 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.
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Seven-thirty in the morning and I am already being scolded by the computer.
Additionally, if 8:02 PM (or 20:02 in 24-hour time) 20 February 2002 is a "symmetrical pattern" (20:02, 20/02, 2002), then 9:12 PM (or 21:12 in 24-hour time) on 21 December 2112 will also be a symmetrical occurrence (21:12, 21/12, 2112).
The limiting factor here is not our clock (as claimed in the final sentence above), but the fact that our calendar has but twelve months. Because of that, the highest symmetrical entry of this type that can be formed under our system of reckoning dates and times is 2112, and thus the final symmetry will occur 110 years from now.
G'Day.
Let's try it in Wing Dings now.
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Bad link. Did you mean THIS?
Subject:: Time Immemorial? INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT TODAY!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/631553/posts
You had an extra quotemark (") at the end of the link. You are linking back to this same article. . .
maybe I should ask the moderator to remove any traces of my "air-headedness" :)
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