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Old 20 April 2007, 04:40 PM
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At three minutes and four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this year, the time and date will be 02:03:04 05/06/07.

This will never happen again.
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Old 24 April 2007, 11:54 PM
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This will never happen again.
Why not? Unless we're assuming there won't be a 3007.
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Old 25 April 2007, 12:06 AM
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At three minutes and four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this year, the time and date will be 02:03:04 05/06/07.

This will never happen again.
You mean 5th of June, surely.
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Old 25 April 2007, 12:25 AM
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At three minutes and four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this year, the time and date will be 02:03:04 05/06/07.

This will never happen again.
Unless you only use military time. For the rest of us, it will happen again later that afternoon.
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Old 25 April 2007, 12:42 AM
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As noted above it happens at least twice given the variations in date abbreviation across the western world. It also happens again in the Islamic calendar in a couple of hundred years as well as in a brace of other calendars I can't be bothered to look up right now.

It also happens again in 3007, 4007 etc.

And next year we get 03:04:05 06/07/08.

In 2012 we even get 07:08:09 10/11/12 just in time for the end of the world.

Gosh, Mr Von Danniken, do you think it means something?

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Old 25 April 2007, 12:58 AM
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3007? What about 2107, 2207, 2307?
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Old 25 April 2007, 02:19 AM
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3007? What about 2107, 2207, 2307?


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Old 25 April 2007, 02:45 AM
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Last year's was much more impressive.
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Old 25 April 2007, 04:18 AM
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Yeah, well, anybody remember 12:34:56 on July 7, 1990? I remember. I was at church.
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Old 25 April 2007, 04:29 AM
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1/23/04 was my wedding day. I didn't notice the sequential numbers until somebody else pointed it out.
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Old 26 April 2007, 05:06 AM
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Yeah, well, anybody remember 12:34:56 on July 7, 1990? I remember. I was at church.
Where where you a year earlier?
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Old 26 April 2007, 02:17 PM
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Unless you only use military time. For the rest of us, it will happen again later that afternoon.
Military time? Are you perhaps referring to International Standard ISO 8601 which deals about how to write dates and times?
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Old 26 April 2007, 06:24 PM
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I remember living through 12:34:56 7/8/90. Twice -- AM and PM!

Could it really be almost 17 years ago, yikes, am I getting old! :O
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Old 26 April 2007, 06:34 PM
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You mean 5th of June, surely.
Right !

At three minutes and four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this year, the time and date will be 02:03:04 05/06/07.

This will happen again, the 5th of June.

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Old 27 April 2007, 04:28 PM
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Where where you a year earlier?
No...you BOTH got it wrong (and 12:34:56 7/7/89 doesn't make sense).

It was July 8 and August 7th, 1990. 12:34:56 7/8/90.

However, on the eleventh second of the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Rememberance Day 2011, it will be 11:11:11 11/11/11. This will NEVER happen again.
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Old 27 April 2007, 04:33 PM
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what about 2111?
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Old 27 April 2007, 06:34 PM
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However, on the eleventh second of the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Rememberance Day 2011, it will be 11:11:11 11/11/11. This will NEVER happen again.
While it's fair to say that it will probably never happen again in our lifetimes, technically it will happen twice every century, since the year is being expressed as only its last 2 digits, and because the time can be both AM and PM.
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Old 28 April 2007, 01:16 PM
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What? You thought I was being serious? (btw: you forgot 2211, 2311, 2411 etc)

BTW: Five posts ago, I had 1,234 posts. This will likely never happen again in my account.
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Old 28 April 2007, 01:38 PM
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No...you BOTH got it wrong (and 12:34:56 7/7/89 doesn't make sense).

It was July 8 and August 7th, 1990. 12:34:56 7/8/90.
Whoops! July wasn't a number, so it threw me off!
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Old 28 April 2007, 07:01 PM
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What? You thought I was being serious? (btw: you forgot 2211, 2311, 2411 etc)

BTW: Five posts ago, I had 1,234 posts. This will likely never happen again in my account.
LOL, actually I didn't forget. I did say "every century", which means 2011, 2111, 2211, and so on. A century is every hundred years, after all.

A fish for me for being pedantic.
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