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.
Just think, someone actually drew a salary writing this article.
ho hum
The suspense is killing me!
And just think; 6-6-6 is 3 months away. June 6th 2006. Somehow I think that is the date Hellary is going to announce her run for POTUS.
Wasn't the time, date, and year 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 sometime ago?
20:08 would be the brightest, zero actually has one more segment than the 5 or the 3.
I was sent this e-mail and shared it with a few people here but I didn't start a thread though because I didn't want to get yelled at. I wanted to though:')
I'm predicting a terrorist attack may happen somewhere on that date.
Ah, now it all makes sense- a Haliburton conspiracy!
BTW, this would never happen if we were in Europe, where they represent the date d/m/y. Must have seen this coming.
ROFL!
That's obviously never a big concern for me.
Yes, Hellary will announce her run. That in itself is a terrorist attack.
11:11 is the best time. Followed closely by 12:34. This isn't just my opinion, it's a scientifically proven fact. Of course, the scientists are environmentalists, so take it for what it's worth.
OMG!!!! ;)
What the heck does this guy do all day long for his taxpayer paid salary? I guess he stares at clocks and thinks up a bunch of stupid crap like this.
Crap, I used to do that kind of stuff for free when I smoked pot. Too bad I didn't know I could get paid for it. Just Damn.
lol
My eyes!!!!
Dang it. ;-)
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