Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] FW: Time
Date: Feb 18, 2002 @ 11:55
Author: Anton Florian Zeilinger ("Anton Florian Zeilinger" <anton_zeilinger@...>)
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That is pretty neat, but what about

21:12, 21/12, 2112

Doesn't this date also qualify?

Anton Z

>From: "Jack Parsell" <jparsell@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: "Boundary Point" <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] FW: Time
>Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:09:46 -0500
>
>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.
>
>
>


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