Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/16

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Subject: [Leica] Re: "palindromic" moment
From: Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 00:57:20 -0500

Geez, too bad for me; it never happened in New Jersey. We had 20:20, 
02/20, 2002

Allan


On Saturday, February 16, 2002, at 10:15 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>
> On February 20th this year (next Wednesday), precisely at 8.02 p.m., a
> remarkable, "palindromic" moment in time will occur.  Although not
> marked by any chiming of clocks or ringing of bells, at that precise
> time and on that specific date, something will happen which has not
> occurred for over 1,000 years.  And it will never happen again - ever!
>
> As the clock ticks over from 8.01p.m. on Wednesday, February 20, time
> will (for sixty seconds only) reckon in a perfect symmetry:  20:02,
> 20/02, 2002. This is known as a "palindrome" - i.e., when a set of
> numbers or letters reads exactly the same forward and backward.
>
> This is an event which, since the beginning of time, has happened only
> once before.  That previous occasion was long before the digital watch
> and the 24-hour clock were invented.  It occurred on January 10, 1001,
> at 10.01a.m. [10:01, 10/01, 1001].   Because there are only 24 hours in
> a day, after February 20th of this year, there will never again be an
> occasion when time will reckon palindromically in this way.
>
>

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