Fw: Re: [Groop]Happy Palindome Day!

[E C]

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From: Jeff Allen <allenjf@gactr.uga.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:46:10 -0500
To: E C <mightyhero@mail.com>
Subject: Re: [Groop]Happy Palindome Day!
2112 is the next year.




E C wrote:
> 
> >From Kimmy (on the Noriko Sakai mailing list):
> 
> --
> 
> This is WAY OFF TOPIC but  . . .
> 
> Time Goes On
> 
> Believe it or not but 8.02 PM on February 20 this year 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, 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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