Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Mark, it looks even nicer when you write the date and time the way they do it in Sweden, i.e starting with the largest denomination and working downwards. I think it is an ISO standard, and it works well on my computer too, because it makes sorting by date real easy. I started using that system about 15 yrs ago and have kept it, but now even Gates probably has a date sorting function in his programs. Anyway it would look like this 2002 0220 2002 It works adding second and hundreds of seconds too, but then you will have to get up earlier in the morning for the celebration. 2002 0220 0220 2002 Chris >I got this from my Aunt. > >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. > > >Mark Rabiner >Portland, Oregon USA >http://www.markrabiner.com >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Christer Almqvist D 20255 Hamburg and / or F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html