[Groop]Happy Palindome Day!

[Denis Hackney]

E C wrote:
> 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.

And back in the early hours of February 2 this year, the time and date
was, for just a second, 02:02:02, 02/02/02.

> 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.

What about 11:11am on 11 November, 1111?  You can't get much more
symmetrical a date than 11:11, 11/11, 1111.

> And because the clock only goes up to 23.59, it is something that will
> never happen again.

Actually, 9:12pm on 21 December, 2112 is just as symmetrical.  That'll
be 21:12, 21/12, 2112.  After that I don't think there's any, but I
could very well be wrong...

But still, the only date I've experienced that was anywhere near as
cool as all these was back in 1990, when we had 12:34:56, 7/8/90... :)

Later,
Denis.
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Denis Hackney - http://members.optusnet.com.au/~dhackney/