OT: Once in a Lifetime, Twice in Forever

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed Feb 20 20:38:07 2002

Subject: Once in a Lifetime, Twice in Forever

Once in a Lifetime, Twice in Forever... unless we adopt a new calendar.

8.02pm on February 20 this year will be an historic moment in time.

It will not be marked by the chiming of any clocks or the ringing of bells,
but at that precise time something will happen which has not occurred for
1,001 years and will never happen again.

As the clock ticks over from 8.01pm on Wednesday, February 20, time will,
for sixty seconds only, read in perfect symmetry 2002, 2002, 2002, or to be
more precise - 20:02, 20/02, 2002.

The last time there was such a symmetrical pattern was long before the days
of the digital watch and the 24-hour clock - at 10.01am on January 10,
1001. And because the clock only goes up to 23.59, it is something that
will never happen again.


--Tim VanSant
Received on Wed Feb 20 2002 - 20:38:07 GMT