A unique event
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Tomorrow, as the clock ticks over from 8:01PM on Wednesday, February 20th, 2002, time will (for sixty seconds only) read in perfect symmetry. To be more precise: 20:02, 20/02, 2002. It is an event which has only ever happened once before, and is something which will never be repeated. The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was a millennium ago, long before the days of the digital watch (or the 24-hour clock): 10:01AM, on January 10, 1001 which would have registered 10:01, 10/01, 1001 but probably looked totally different in Roman characters. And because the clock only goes up to 23:59, it is something that will never happen again. Unless, of course, Microsoft decides to change the way we read time :) - Khaled In C we created our own bugs. With C++ we can inherit them.
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Tomorrow, as the clock ticks over from 8:01PM on Wednesday, February 20th, 2002, time will (for sixty seconds only) read in perfect symmetry. To be more precise: 20:02, 20/02, 2002. It is an event which has only ever happened once before, and is something which will never be repeated. The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was a millennium ago, long before the days of the digital watch (or the 24-hour clock): 10:01AM, on January 10, 1001 which would have registered 10:01, 10/01, 1001 but probably looked totally different in Roman characters. And because the clock only goes up to 23:59, it is something that will never happen again. Unless, of course, Microsoft decides to change the way we read time :) - Khaled In C we created our own bugs. With C++ we can inherit them.
Sounds like a Fearful Symmetry to me. I'll be hiding in the wiring closet, away from all the falling airplanes, thank you very much. :-O
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Tomorrow, as the clock ticks over from 8:01PM on Wednesday, February 20th, 2002, time will (for sixty seconds only) read in perfect symmetry. To be more precise: 20:02, 20/02, 2002. It is an event which has only ever happened once before, and is something which will never be repeated. The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was a millennium ago, long before the days of the digital watch (or the 24-hour clock): 10:01AM, on January 10, 1001 which would have registered 10:01, 10/01, 1001 but probably looked totally different in Roman characters. And because the clock only goes up to 23:59, it is something that will never happen again. Unless, of course, Microsoft decides to change the way we read time :) - Khaled In C we created our own bugs. With C++ we can inherit them.
Khaled Hammouda wrote: To be more precise: 20:02, 20/02, 2002. It is an event which has only ever happened once before, and is something which will never be repeated. The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was a millennium ago, long before the days of the digital watch (or the 24-hour clock): 10:01AM, on January 10, 1001 which would have registered 10:01, 10/01, 1001 but probably looked totally different in Roman characters. WRONG. It's happened thrice before. 20:02, 20/02, 2002 BC 10:01, 10/01, 1001 BC 10:01, 10/01, 1001 AD Nish Nish was here, now Nish has gone; He left his soul, to turn you on; Those who knew Nish, knew him well; Those who didn't, can go to hell. I like to :jig: on the Code Project Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org
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Tomorrow, as the clock ticks over from 8:01PM on Wednesday, February 20th, 2002, time will (for sixty seconds only) read in perfect symmetry. To be more precise: 20:02, 20/02, 2002. It is an event which has only ever happened once before, and is something which will never be repeated. The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was a millennium ago, long before the days of the digital watch (or the 24-hour clock): 10:01AM, on January 10, 1001 which would have registered 10:01, 10/01, 1001 but probably looked totally different in Roman characters. And because the clock only goes up to 23:59, it is something that will never happen again. Unless, of course, Microsoft decides to change the way we read time :) - Khaled In C we created our own bugs. With C++ we can inherit them.
I posted something similar before, and as some clever person (I forget who) pointed out : 9:12 pm, on December 21st, 2112 21:12, 21/12, 2112
Bruce Duncan - Digital Delirium
honk() if $you->love(PERL);
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Tomorrow, as the clock ticks over from 8:01PM on Wednesday, February 20th, 2002, time will (for sixty seconds only) read in perfect symmetry. To be more precise: 20:02, 20/02, 2002. It is an event which has only ever happened once before, and is something which will never be repeated. The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was a millennium ago, long before the days of the digital watch (or the 24-hour clock): 10:01AM, on January 10, 1001 which would have registered 10:01, 10/01, 1001 but probably looked totally different in Roman characters. And because the clock only goes up to 23:59, it is something that will never happen again. Unless, of course, Microsoft decides to change the way we read time :) - Khaled In C we created our own bugs. With C++ we can inherit them.
Khaled Hammouda wrote: 20:02, 20/02, 2002 Awesome isn't it, I'm quite emotionally excited about it. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
28 th Law of Computing: Anything that can go wr# Segmentation violation -- Core dumped
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Tomorrow, as the clock ticks over from 8:01PM on Wednesday, February 20th, 2002, time will (for sixty seconds only) read in perfect symmetry. To be more precise: 20:02, 20/02, 2002. It is an event which has only ever happened once before, and is something which will never be repeated. The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was a millennium ago, long before the days of the digital watch (or the 24-hour clock): 10:01AM, on January 10, 1001 which would have registered 10:01, 10/01, 1001 but probably looked totally different in Roman characters. And because the clock only goes up to 23:59, it is something that will never happen again. Unless, of course, Microsoft decides to change the way we read time :) - Khaled In C we created our own bugs. With C++ we can inherit them.
I ran your post in VC and it GPFed on the line: Khaled Hammouda wrote: To be more precise: 20:02, 20/02, 2002. Evidently the original author thinks the whole world uses 24 hour clocks and that weird backwards date notation; the code will crash in the US. Please notify him of the GetTimeFormat() and GetDateFormat() APIs which will fix this problem. --Mike-- Fetchez la vache! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm Big fan of Alyson Hannigan and Jamie Salé.
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I posted something similar before, and as some clever person (I forget who) pointed out : 9:12 pm, on December 21st, 2112 21:12, 21/12, 2112
Bruce Duncan - Digital Delirium
honk() if $you->love(PERL);
Bruce Duncan wrote: 21:12, 21/12, 2112 Damn it! I thought this is the last time this will happen. Well, here's the complete list: 01:10, 01/10, 0110 10:01, 10/01, 1001 11:11, 11/11, 1111 20:02, 20/02, 2002 21:12, 21/12, 2112 You're right there. But hey, at least we get to witness one of those moments :) I know what some will say, "who cares?!!" .. well, it's not that exciting really, but it's just an interesting notice nothing more :) Be well ... - Khaled In C we could create our own bugs. With C++ we can inherit them.
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Bruce Duncan wrote: 21:12, 21/12, 2112 Damn it! I thought this is the last time this will happen. Well, here's the complete list: 01:10, 01/10, 0110 10:01, 10/01, 1001 11:11, 11/11, 1111 20:02, 20/02, 2002 21:12, 21/12, 2112 You're right there. But hey, at least we get to witness one of those moments :) I know what some will say, "who cares?!!" .. well, it's not that exciting really, but it's just an interesting notice nothing more :) Be well ... - Khaled In C we could create our own bugs. With C++ we can inherit them.
Sorry, that reply was supposed to be for Bruce Duncan. - Khaled In C we could create our own bugs. With C++ we can inherit them.
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I ran your post in VC and it GPFed on the line: Khaled Hammouda wrote: To be more precise: 20:02, 20/02, 2002. Evidently the original author thinks the whole world uses 24 hour clocks and that weird backwards date notation; the code will crash in the US. Please notify him of the GetTimeFormat() and GetDateFormat() APIs which will fix this problem. --Mike-- Fetchez la vache! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm Big fan of Alyson Hannigan and Jamie Salé.
Michael Dunn wrote: Evidently the original author thinks the whole world uses 24 hour clocks and that weird backwards date notation If you're gonna look at it from the point of computing, any use of the 12-hour clock is sheer folly. And that weird backward notation is used in almost everywhere outside the US. Michael Dunn wrote: the code will crash in the US It's not code, it's a date and time. But anyway, I get your point :) - Khaled In C we could create our own bugs. With C++ we can inherit them.