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 that 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.
BUMP for the WTC historic event to be kept honest.
Tell ya what, make that 10:01 10/01(Oct 1), 1001 and I'll go with it. ; )
Hmmm, then that would make 02:02, 02/02 (0)202?????? Okay then, how about, 0202020202?????
I will NEVER get used to putting the day before the month...
Most of us are old enough to remember 12:34 5/6 '78.
Fun with numbers....
FGS