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Chronological Oddity to Hit Digital Clock (in 45 mins your clock will read "01-02-03-04-05-06")
Associated Press ^ | 4/5/6

Posted on 04/04/2006 9:24:04 PM PDT by presidio9

Call it a coincidental sign of our digital times or a reason to stay up late and stare at the clock. Either way, early Wednesday morning the time and date will be 01-02-03-04-05-06.

At 1:02 a.m. and three seconds on Wednesday, April 5, 2006, it will be the first hour of the day, the second minute of the hour, the third second of that precious minute in the fourth month of the fifth year of ... uh oh. It's not really the sixth year.

It's actually 2006 — only in our shorthand is it '06.

"It just happens to be a chronological oddity," said Geoff Chester, spokesman for the U.S. Naval Observatory, an official world atomic clock timekeeper. "If you were to use the full year, that would screw things up completely. You do have to bend it a little if you want to make it work. That's what you call 'Finagle's Law of Best Fit'."

Even numerologists, such as Rob Ragozzine, who runs the SimplyNumbers.com web site, dismiss the 1-2-3-4-5-6 moment as merely "a neat coincidence" because of that pesky 2006 thing.

"People are interested in numbers," said Jack Horkheimer, 67-year-old host of the Star Gazer public television show and executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. "Would I stay up all night waiting for it? Ten years ago, I would have had a party. Now, I will probably be deep in the arms of sleep."

There are less bleary-eyed alternatives. There's 1:02 p.m., but Horkheimer said that's really 13:02 p.m. and doesn't really count.

Chester recommends celebrating universal time, the standard scientific time, which is four hours ahead of eastern daylight time. So 01-02-03-04-05-06 can be celebrated at 9:02 p.m. EDT by calling up the U.S. Naval Observatory's "master clock" then and waiting for the universal time pronouncement, he said. That number is 202-762-1401.

The clock is also on the web at: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what1.html.

For much of the world, especially Europe, this odd line-up of numbers doesn't really happen until next month. That's because many countries put the number of the day first, then the number of the month. So for many places, 01-02-03-04-05-06 happens at 1:02 a.m. May 4.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous
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To: sageb1; Screamname

The most evil date so far would have been June 6th, 666.

I wonder if people freaked out a bit in that year....


101 posted on 04/05/2006 12:02:44 AM PDT by stands2reason
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To: presidio9

Just happened here in MDT. It was great.


102 posted on 04/05/2006 12:03:09 AM PDT by RussellStevens
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To: Rte66

I used to suffer from severe 12:34-itis, but it cleared up on its own.


103 posted on 04/05/2006 12:06:35 AM PDT by stands2reason
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To: RussellStevens

TTTT, I've had better minutes.


104 posted on 04/05/2006 12:11:02 AM PDT by stands2reason
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To: presidio9

Why didn't I hear anything last year when it was 00:01:02 03/04/05 ?


105 posted on 04/05/2006 12:11:45 AM PDT by zeebee
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To: presidio9

You get the prize for having the closest post to the stated time:

> > 49 posted on 04/05/2006 1:02:19 AM EDT by presidio9 < <


106 posted on 04/05/2006 12:14:47 AM PDT by zeebee
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To: presidio9

Well it won't happen in Europe until the 4th of May 06!

Europe starts with DDMMYY as the US is MMDDYY!


107 posted on 04/05/2006 12:31:06 AM PDT by restornu
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To: presidio9

ping


108 posted on 04/05/2006 1:01:56 AM PDT by RonDog
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To: zeebee
You get the prize for having the closest post to the stated time:

> > 49 posted on 04/05/2006 1:02:19 AM EDT by presidio9 < <

That was EAST COAST time.
What about the prize for CALIFORNIA time?

109 posted on 04/05/2006 1:02:02 AM PDT by RonDog
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To: RonDog

>>What about the prize for CALIFORNIA time?<<

You undoubtedly get that one!


110 posted on 04/05/2006 1:09:23 AM PDT by zeebee
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To: zeebee; RonDog
Good grief - y'all are still UP?

Still having the 01:02:02 04/05/06 party? ;-)

111 posted on 04/05/2006 1:11:48 AM PDT by Allegra (No mosques were entered or damaged during this post.)
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To: presidio9

OMG! Run to your bunkers!

Its the Y2KIIIIIIIVVVI! All computers will crash and vending machines will not give change!

AAAAAHHHH!


112 posted on 04/05/2006 1:13:47 AM PDT by truemiester (If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
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To: JRios1968

I'm glad this is posted in news....


113 posted on 04/05/2006 3:09:47 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (You're kind of crazy, but in a very good way. - broham)
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To: JRios1968
And I owed PaulaB a PING...lol

:P
114 posted on 04/05/2006 4:28:49 AM PDT by PaulaB
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To: Dashing Dasher

You forgot the /sarc tag! lol


115 posted on 04/05/2006 4:57:36 AM PDT by JRios1968 (E=mc3...the origin of "friends don't let friends derive drunk.")
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To: Heatseeker

I have been catching it late, since we're not allowed to post from the base. I have heard a lot of speculation from our folks on base as to what might have happened. Did you hear it as it happened?


116 posted on 04/05/2006 5:00:57 AM PDT by JRios1968 (E=mc3...the origin of "friends don't let friends derive drunk.")
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To: JRios1968

Did I?


/sarc


117 posted on 04/05/2006 5:01:22 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (You're kind of crazy, but in a very good way. - broham)
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To: abigailsmybaby

Aren't they cute?!


118 posted on 04/05/2006 5:01:28 AM PDT by JRios1968 (E=mc3...the origin of "friends don't let friends derive drunk.")
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To: JRios1968
Yes, pretty much. The latest speculation as to cause (and it's just that, speculation, at this point) is in this article from the Wilmington News-Journal
119 posted on 04/05/2006 5:21:44 AM PDT by Heatseeker (Never underestimate the left's tendency to underestimate us.)
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To: Reeses
You still have a small chance in your future to post a Freeper message at 08/07/06 05:43:21 PM PST.

I'm counting the seconds until 12:34:56 7/8/9.
Just 3 1/4 years waiting... waiting... :-)
120 posted on 04/05/2006 5:41:34 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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