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.
I guess my C-5s didn't wake you ;)
What the heck does this guy do all day long for his taxpayer paid salary?
But, Mr Looking4Truth, it's not just ANY guy, it's Geoff freaking Chester!! The best clock watcher in America, bar none.
Thanks! I should have known it was Geoff freaking Chester!
I'm seriously LMAO right now, thanks I needed that. Cheers dude!!
BWA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Boo!
It's common to have dates in the format YY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS in computer files because it sorts naturally. The inverse sequence 06-05-04 03:02:01 is only 30 days away.
I'm looking at my clock right now, and it's everything I hoped it would be.
We made it.
There you go bringing logical facts into a perfectly sarcastic thread.
Huh?
Near as I can tell, this exact thing will happen at 01:02:03 on May 4 in Europe.
Someone needs to get a life!
Hey, no fair! It's my bedtime! (lol!)
Guilty as charged.
Casual Friday was always a nooner. :-)
OH GOD I MISSED IT!!!! I just looked at my clock and it's 1:04AM. What am I going to do now? I'll never have this opportunity again in my life and I blew it!!!! God, life sucks!!!
You call that SCARY??? I'll see your demon and raise you a
Why are you looking at me like that? Now, c'mere and give me a kiss!
Not to rub it in, but for committed clock watchers, it truely was the best minute ever.
Nooners are always the best!
Actually the real date of 6-6-6 would have to be June 6th 06 A.D. Six years after the birth of Christ. We`ve already had 6-6-06 every century since then, in June 6th 1806, 1706, 1606, etc etc...and the world is still here. One interesting thought though is someone told me once the Prophet Mohammed founder of Islam was born June 6th 600 A.D. but many people have told me that is false, but sometimes I wonder if it is. After all, 666 represents the anti-Christ and Islam to me seems to be the oppostite of Christianity. Whereas Christianity promotes love, "love thy neighbor etc ect", Islam to me seems to promote the opposite. Death it seems is be the solution to everything in Islam. Insulting cartoonist or writer? Death. Cheating wife? Death.
No offense, but you're starting to sound like one of those dorks who demanded that we celebrate the millenium on 12/31/00.
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