RE: Interesting Tidbit
Perfect symmetry is only in the eyes of the beholder.
If we write the date as mm/dd, this event happened several times before...
At 1:01 am on January 10th, 0101:(01:10, 01/10, 0110)
(02:20, 02/20, 0220)
(03:30, 03/30, 0330)
(10:01, 10/01, 1001) < Is this January 10th or October 1st? You make the
call.
(11:11, 11/11, 1111) < Now that is perfect symmetry! It doesn't matter how
you write the date. Actually, at 11:11:11 on 11/11/11, for one second, the
symmetry was even more complete!
(12:21, 12/21, 1221)
Also, we are using the Roman calendar, so to us, time is in symmetry...but I
won't go into that any further.
-Gus
-----Original Message-----
From: Thompson, Paul S. [p*@glgt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:30 AM
To: 'pumpkins@mallorn.com'
Subject: RE: Interesting Tidbit
Actually, if we put the day before the month (dd/mm/yyyy), it will happen
again at 9:12PM, December 21, 2112 (21:12, 21/12, 2112).
Hmmm, I wonder what the pumpkin record will be by then...
Paul Thompson
-----Original Message-----
From: peter paynter [p*@pei.sympatico.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 3:04 PM
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Subject: Interesting Tidbit
RE: Time - interesting tidbit As the clock ticks over from 8:01PM on
Wednesday, February 20th, 2002, time will (for sixty seconds only) read
in
perfect symmetry. To be more precise: 20:02, 20/02, 2002. 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 (or the 24-hour clock):
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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