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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.


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To: presidio9

Just think, someone actually drew a salary writing this article.


21 posted on 04/04/2006 9:42:44 PM PDT by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: Paleo Conservative

ho hum


22 posted on 04/04/2006 9:42:51 PM PDT by bayareablues
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To: presidio9

The suspense is killing me!


23 posted on 04/04/2006 9:43:04 PM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy (Those who beat their swords into plow shears….will plow for those who don’t.)
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To: presidio9

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.


24 posted on 04/04/2006 9:43:13 PM PDT by Screamname (By God someone help me, Hillary is my Senator!)
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To: presidio9

Wasn't the time, date, and year 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 sometime ago?


25 posted on 04/04/2006 9:44:32 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (None genuine without my signature)
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To: JRios1968

20:08 would be the brightest, zero actually has one more segment than the 5 or the 3.


26 posted on 04/04/2006 9:44:36 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: presidio9

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:')


27 posted on 04/04/2006 9:45:16 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Screamname
6-6-6 is 3 months away

I'm predicting a terrorist attack may happen somewhere on that date.

28 posted on 04/04/2006 9:45:24 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (None genuine without my signature)
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To: sageb1

Ah, now it all makes sense- a Haliburton conspiracy!


29 posted on 04/04/2006 9:46:03 PM PDT by Sofa King (A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
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To: Screamname
Actually I can`t count, it`s 2 months. AAAAUUUGHH!!!


30 posted on 04/04/2006 9:46:05 PM PDT by Screamname (By God someone help me, Hillary is my Senator!)
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To: JRios1968

BTW, this would never happen if we were in Europe, where they represent the date d/m/y. Must have seen this coming.


31 posted on 04/04/2006 9:46:49 PM PDT by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K virus -only without the inconvenient deadline.)
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To: garandgal
"Is this the official "live thread?" Will there be a countdown?"

ROFL!

32 posted on 04/04/2006 9:47:40 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: CindyDawg
didn't start a thread though because I didn't want to get yelled at

That's obviously never a big concern for me.

33 posted on 04/04/2006 9:47:58 PM PDT by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K virus -only without the inconvenient deadline.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Yes, Hellary will announce her run. That in itself is a terrorist attack.


34 posted on 04/04/2006 9:48:20 PM PDT by Screamname (By God someone help me, Hillary is my Senator!)
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To: stainlessbanner

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.


35 posted on 04/04/2006 9:48:41 PM PDT by Cyclopean Squid (History is a work in progress)
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To: Screamname
"And just think; 6-6-6 is 3 months away. June 6th 2006."

OMG!!!! ;)

36 posted on 04/04/2006 9:48:56 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: presidio9
Geoff Chester, spokesman for the U.S. Naval Observatory, an official world atomic clock timekeeper.

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.

37 posted on 04/04/2006 9:49:05 PM PDT by Looking4Truth (Radical Muslims and Illegal immigrants: Too stupid to create so they invade or destroy.)
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To: presidio9

lol


38 posted on 04/04/2006 9:49:24 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Always Right

My eyes!!!!


39 posted on 04/04/2006 9:51:16 PM PDT by JRios1968 (E=mc3...the origin of "friends don't let friends derive drunk.")
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To: JRios1968
I slept through 01:02:03 04/05/06....

Dang it. ;-)

40 posted on 04/04/2006 9:55:21 PM PDT by Allegra (No mosques were entered or damaged during this post.)
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