Subject: FW: Time
Date: Feb 18, 2002 @ 04:09
Author: Jack Parsell ("Jack Parsell" <jparsell@...>)
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Michael,
This was sent to me by a friend. I don't know
where it originated. Anyhow, it adds another
four digits to your Feb. 20 palindrome. Enjoy.

Jack


> Believe it or not but 8.02pm on February 20, 2002 will be an
> historic moment in time.
>
> 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, 2002, 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 which 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.
>
> And because the clock only goes up to 23.59, it is something
> that will never happen again.