Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - --- James Harrison - --- leicajh@earthlink.net - --- http://home.earthlink.net/~leicajh/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html