BS: 123456

Subject: BS: 123456
From: GUEST,Mrr at work, kind of
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 12:31 PM

At 3 seconds past 2 minutes after 1 am tonight (tomorrow morning, technically), in each time zone - it will be:

01:02:03 04/05/06.

Not going to happen again for another 100 years... everybody, stay awake!

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Cllr
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 12:33 PM

except in england next month 01:02:03 04/05/06. 'cos in the UK thats starwars day cllr

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Cllr
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 12:37 PM

Or "May the Fourth be with you"

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: MMario
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 12:40 PM

yup - someone already caught the fact that since different systems are used to record dates this will occur on the other side of the pond a month seperate from the other occurence.

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 12:51 PM

U.S. military services use the day/month/year format as well. That means that someone in a military reserve branch who is doing his civilian job this week but has a reserve obligation a month from now can experience it twice.

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Peace
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 01:13 PM

There are 720 combinations of that number. Copycat Threads r Us.

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: MMario
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 01:14 PM

then there is 04/05/06 7:08:09 (both am and pm)

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 01:39 PM

I remember 12:23:45 6/7/89 I stayed up late to see it, then saw it again in the afternoon...(I DO approve of the month before the day)

Nothing happened.

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: nosluap57
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 04:33 PM

Bill D -

Too bad you didn't stay up another 11 minutes and 11 seconds, until 12:34:56......

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: GUEST,van lingle
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 04:45 PM

...7, I never learned to count a great amount".

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Mr Red
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 04:54 PM

call me a pedant but don't the Japanese in their rigorous efficiency put the Year first. And in strict mathematical terms (if you are a programmer it makes sense) shouldn't the most significant digit be the leftmost character? Unless your lexicon runs widdershins.

E.g. 2006/05/04 01:23 - not as prosaic I admit and hour 45 was impossible on the third of Feb 2001, but for all the other years, days, hours, minutes, seconds (not forgetting the decimal point) - what could be neater? Simple as 123 if you ask me.

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 05:03 PM

And this year, June 6th will be

06/06/06

Hail SATAN!

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 05:45 PM

And three years fom now, September 9th will be

09/09/09

Hail NATAS!

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: bobad
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 05:53 PM

That's my birthday, I will be 60.

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Amos
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 06:16 PM

It don't hurt, bobad, unless you resist it very hard! :D

A

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: bobad
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 06:25 PM

I plan on fighting it all the way.

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 06:29 PM

I agree with Mr Red that the sequence year-month-day-hour-minute-second makes a lot of sense, since it puts the largest units farthest to the left, the same way we do with pounds, shillings, and pence; gallons and quarts; or any other kind of measurement I know of.

In fact, I use a computer program that formats date and time exactly that way so that records can be easily sorted into chronological order according to when they were generated.

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 07:41 PM

*beating my tired brain on the wall*

I DID actually see 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 ...not the other one I posted.. don't know how I re-created THAT silly number..

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: number 6
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 07:54 PM

Freaky !


sIx

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: autolycus
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 06:05 PM

I also recall 2 mins past 8 on 20th Feb 2002,a.k.a.

20.02/20.02/2002.

I've always been used to writing my birth date as 17th July 1945. I see say, 8.25 on 17.7.06, starting with smallest and finishing with year as fine and natural. Personally.


   Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 10:38 PM

I mailed myself a couple of letters many years ago so I'd have the postmarks that said 7/7/77.

Lucky me!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Mr Red
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 08:13 AM

Jim Dixon

FWIW

You may be surprised that - dates in a spreadsheet will sort numerically despite the format. The format is just a neat presentation of the underlying number - the number of days since Jan1 AD100. Convert one cell to number with a few decimal places and you will be amazed. - if it doesn't change see below. Micro$oft have a way of doing things for you when you didn't want it to, like converting dates into the above format.

If your dates are pure text they will sort according to the ASCII number of the character in the first position - then according to subsequent positions etc.

1 is followed by 10,11,12 then 2,3,4,5,6 etc unless you insist on 01,02,03 etc in all positions.

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: gnu
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 08:19 AM

Ohoh. What happens at 06:06:06, 06.06.06?

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 09:01 AM

Since the Universe started on January 1, 1970, I simply use as a date the number of seconds that have elapsed since then, usually in hexadecimal. Of course, the Universe will end on January 18, 2038.

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Paul Burke
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 09:06 AM

You could guess by looking back historically: what happened on 6th June 1006, or better still 606AD (06:06:06 06-06-0606)?

You may have to adjust for the change from Julian to Gregorian, but I think that's only a few days, and stuff wasn't often recorded to the day back then.

Random netsearch quotes:

"Chien-chih Seng-ts'an Third Zen Patriarch (606AD)"
"..the organizational entity that calls itself the Catholic Church started in 606AD.."
"..more Patriarchs were added in the East, but after the same order and design of Constantinople in 606AD.."
"Jianzhi Sengcan, the Third Ancestor [died 606AD]"
"Birth of astronomer Aryabhatta 606 AD"
"606 AD - Aedh, son of Colgan, chief of Oirghialla and of all the Airtheara, died on his pilgrimage, at Cluain Mic Nois (Clonmacnoise)"
"The first known independent Bengal king was Shashanka (circa 606 AD)."
"the (Chinese) written exam system of civil service became established in 606 ad"
"the death of Prabahakar Vardhan in 606 AD"
"The City (Cork) was founded on a monastic settlement associated with St. Finbarr in 606 AD"
"The Flavigny abbey , erected in the 7th century ( some say 606 AD ) took every 11th basket at harvest time..."

Can't guarantee that any of these happened on June 6th, at just after 6 in the morning, but it looks pretty likely, doesn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: DMcG
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 09:17 AM

Can anyone explain why the immigration form for the US (I-94W to be precise) uses the dd/mm/yyyy order whereas the rest of the US officialdom uses mm/dd/yyyy?

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 09:19 AM

On the 30th April 1006 AD Chinese astronomers saw what we now know to have been the biggest Supernova ever seen by Human eyes.
This would have been seen on the 6th June, as it remained visible for over a year.

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: beardedbruce
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 09:30 AM

Rapaire - PM
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 09:01 AM

Since the Universe started on January 1, 1970, I simply use as a date the number of seconds that have elapsed since then, usually in hexadecimal. Of course, the Universe will end on January 18, 2038.


You mean the UNIXverse...

Some of us remember before Jan 1, 1970...

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Peace
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 10:27 AM

"Ohoh. What happens at 06:06:06, 06.06.06?"

It's already happened. Bush got elected twice.

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: GUEST,N nine
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 10:55 AM

Whot about 99? We allus get left out.

Basta*rds.

Ninety nine.

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 11:38 AM

Is there another?

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 11:53 AM

Have you ever noticed that cookies they want to last the longest are set to expire in 2036? I assume that's significant.



BTW...in a clock/calendar program I have, it is possible to calculate the elapsed time, down to seconds) since Dec 15, 1752, when the calendar changed....or the time until a date in the future...you have warranties that will expire and want to keep track? Want to know how many minutes you have lived? Find out instantly!

Subject: RE: BS: 123456
From: beardedbruce
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 01:55 PM

Rapaire,

For those of us who are VAX/VMS fans, WE have a lot longer.