And what about
22:22, 22/22, 2222
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-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 9:24 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: OT: An Interesting Minute in Time
Frank writes frankly:
> 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.
As pointed out earlier, all of that would be true if it weren't for the
date:
21:12, 21/12, 2112
Wirt Atmar
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