Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/17

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: "palindromic" moment
From: "James Harrison" <leicajh@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:32:54 -0600

 This will happen 24 times that date--right?  jh
> 
> 
> 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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