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Time In Perfect Symmatry

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  • 16-02-2002 12:04am
    #1
    GoneShootin
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    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 long before the days of the digital watch (or the 24-hour clock): 10:01AM, on October 1st, 1001. This will happen only once again on 21:12, 21/12, 2112.

    i got this in an email 2day, is it true ?


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    seamus
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    Well, no there's more if you think about it.....

    11:11 11/11/1111 (11:11AM Nov 11th 1111)

    Which while slightly bending the rules still applies. There are a couple more for you to find.......:)


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    scojones
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    did this not happen on the second of feb of this year at two minutes past two pm? :)


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    Guy Incognito
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    Originally posted by sjones
    did this not happen on the second of feb of this year at two minutes past two pm? :)

    two minutes past two pm is 14:02, so no.:p


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    scojones
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    Damnit, had my phone on 12hr, grrr :)


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    Chubby
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    Biggest load of crap I've ever read from a chain email. As mentioned by someone else, 1111 11:11 11/11 is an even later date and I am sure there are more dates like that. As for there will never be another day like this...what about 2112 21:12 21/12???


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    Slaanesh
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    I think the word you were looking for was palindrome.


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