This won't happen again for 1000 years

My father-in-law pointed out today:

On Wednesday Apr 5th, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

Raise your hand if you plan to stay awake to catch that moment. Mmmmmaybeee. OK, not me.

My 12th birthday was on 8/8/88. I thought that was pretty special. I even saved a newspaper article from that day titled, "8/8/88: A Gr8 D8 for the town of Eighty-Eight." The article had something to do with a couple getting married that day in a town bearing the name "Eighty-eight."

And in recent years I finally shook an OCD habit of making a wish every time I caught a digital clock showing a string of like numbers, i.e. 1:11, 2:22, etc.

I'm such a dork.



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Reply #1 Top
That's so cool, thanks for the fun detail!

and you are not a dork.
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and you are not a dork.


*revels in sweet validation*
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That is pretty amusing.
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I think that's kinda neat too.
So even if you are a dork, you are in good company.
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Hmm closer to 100 years actually. year 2106 would be shortened to /06.

Yeah it's yet another one of those unusual chance date. Here's another...

01:01:01 01/01/01
02:02:02 02/02/02
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12:12:12 12/12/12

then you would have to wait till 2101 then...
01:01:01 01/01/01 once again...

Of course, you can't go past 12 since there's only 12 months. Also, only 12 hours if you use standard time and not military.
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Hmm closer to 100 years actually. year 2106 would be shortened to /06.


Thanks. I was wondering about that, as I just took my FIL's word for it without thinking it through myself. According to how you thought it out, I might have hurt my brain trying.
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It won't be so for everyone, though. Our standard of month/day/year isn't accepted all over. I find a lot of documents and sites that go day/month/year. They just had theirs early, I guess.
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so am I forgiven for article stealing?
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...not.

j/k anyways, that's really cool...

09:10:11 12/13/14 or if you go by day/month/year i guess the highest it could go is...
08:09:10 11/12/13

i think i'll wait for 04:05:54 07/08/87 if I can make it that long... i think that's when I was born actually.

Ha!

Capt. over and out!
Reply #18 Top
My kids told me about this on the day it happened! I thought that was so cool!