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OT: An Interesting Minute in Time
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Frank Gribbin <[log in to unmask]>
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Frank Gribbin <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:05:50 -0500
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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.

Regards,

Frank Gribbin
Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP

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