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Once in a hundred years, coming up Wednesday
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:44 pm
by netmaestro
On Wednesday at three seconds after 1:02 in the AM, the time will be: 01:02:03/04/05/06 ! Won't happen again for a hundred years.
Re: Once in a hundred years, coming up Wednesday
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:04 am
by PB
Not everywhere it won't. Here in Oz it'll be 01:02:03/05/04/06.
Secondly, it's not a once-per-hundred years thing; for example a similar
time/date is 02:03:04/05/06/07, which occurs just next year.
Lastly, see also:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/trivia/symmetry.htm
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:06 pm
by Trond
And 08:12:45/05/08/06 only occurs once in the history of the universe.
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:55 pm
by Joakim Christiansen
Stupid facts

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:08 pm
by blueznl
facts tend to be stubborn things
Re: Once in a hundred years, coming up Wednesday
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:25 am
by PB
> On Wednesday at three seconds after 1:02 in the AM, the time will be:
> 01:02:03/04/05/06 ! Won't happen again for a hundred years.
Actually, you posted the above on April 3, 2006 -- but the exact thing above
will happen before 100 years... in fact only a month later (in May) if you use
the Australian date format.

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:30 am
by PB
> And 08:12:45/05/08/06 only occurs once in the history of the universe
Wrong. What about the years 2106, 2206, 2306, 2406, ... ?
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:57 am
by thefool
Trying to reach as many posts as me with all that double posting?

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:08 am
by PB
@thefool:

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:11 am
by thefool
Just joking
(+1)
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:28 am
by dagcrack

I should reset all the postcounts

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:32 am
by thefool
dagcrack wrote:
I should reset all the postcounts

Well, my new bot can do about 3000 posts in a few minutes containing random words and smilies! so no trouble there.
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:47 am
by PB
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:43 pm
by dagcrack
You laugh! but many forum admins decide to simply comment down a line or two at the forums viewtopic and such (including the memberlist link, etc) just to avoid this kind of post-count fever some people seems to catch

- Although some other forums are setup to give you access wether you have 200 posts or 400 to certain areas.. (meh).
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:17 pm
by Trond
PB wrote:> And 08:12:45/05/08/06 only occurs once in the history of the universe
Wrong. What about the years 2106, 2206, 2306, 2406, ... ?
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Surely we will have changed date system by then.