Unique Time/Date coming up
Unique Time/Date coming up
(OP)
For those of you engineers who get excited about stars aligning in the heavens, or pencils lined up in your pocket in order of their lead mm size.....
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.
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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David
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David
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01:02:03 04/05/06 was more memorable.
Bill
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03/05/07 - three sequential primes!
and prime numbers are lucky numbers, Thursday could be very special.
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Explain Friday the 13th just gone: we lost the entire 11kV distribution on half of our plant that day! (Major substation fault)
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http://www.chryslersebringbundleofjoy.com/
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http:/
So, it appears to be legit.
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Last time I was in your neck of the woods, I was watching Tiger sink a 40 ft. put.
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Wonder if any at 07:07:07?
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Cool, both US and the rest of the world can celebrate this one without having to think about which date system they are using.....Ahhh how simple life would be if we all standardised.....No more imperial system.....All the world driving on the left....Pipe dreams....
Kevin
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Plus when I was working in the UK I designed as many things in inches as in mm, at least the US is a bit more consistent
Plus to the Mil Std shouldn’t it be 2007/07/07?
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Sword hand free.....very interesting.
I was thinking of "drink" hand free driving would put us back on the right hand side of the street... but I don't drive and drink....at least alchohol.
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Not sure how accurate it is but it fits in with what I've heard before.
Also http://www.i18nguy.com/driver-side.html
Out of interest in any other date systems are there any 'interesting dates' coming up.
For instance the old Japanese imperial calendar or even the French revolutionary one.
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Yes, with left hand lane, you have your sword hand free, but your shield can't be used.
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However, I believe knights/soldiers usually only carried their shield when dressed for battle but the sword itself was often carried as part of everyday dress. Also shields went out of vogue some time before swords went out of style, just think 3 Musketeers etc.
So it’s probably not unreasonable to assume that for much of the time throughout history people did only have the sword and hence having your sword hand toward any potential threat was a sensible precaution.
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That would force ships to pass port to port.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starboard
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In Australia, we tempt fate by driving on the left, which should create clockwise spinning southern hemisphere spinning tornados. Guess we just don't have enough trucks yet.
This winter solstice is getting to me.
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ps, returning to the OP, isn't every date/time unique ?
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People are evolved to look for patterns. The OP's date has a pattern.
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You have it backwards, UK and Ireland drive on the left, Europe on the right.
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On 7/7/7 we'll be celebrating the birthdays of my sister and brother (Yes, starting at 7:07...)
Sadly, my mom passed away just three weeks before she could celebrate her birthday on 5/5/5
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The answer is fifth of April 1932, ten o'clock, which makes an easy pattern: 543210
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I just wikipedia'd "alcohol prohibition". i didn't know that a whole bunch of other countries experimented with it (i'm from USA), and all about the same time too. If the UN were around back then, it would have looked like an Alcoholics Anonymous group.
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