Totally useless trivia fact...
 

On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be:

01:02:03 04/05/06

This is the first and last time this will ever happen.

You may now return to your previously scheduled activities.

-dave

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what happened in the year 1006? was the calender adjusted and the date skipped?

what are you trying to tell us about the future? no 2106? no 3006?!

Im worried now - I think Dave knows something! :cO

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Last time?

What about 1pm?

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Until 2106?

Mysterious...

Thanks for this tidbit

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if you are counting on military time it will be the only time but if you are on a 12 hr system you can also count the one in the afternoon also...either way it is still a cool fact.



p.s. this got sent to me a few days ago from upstairs in my office and i had though of posting it but for some reason i didn't...nice job Dave

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I think we all just proved Dave wrong...COOL!

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no I think Dave has access to information from JPL and/or NASA that is not public knowledge, and he cant come right out and tell us

but in a way he IS telling us! :ahh:

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Exactly. April 5, 1006 was not actually April 5, 1006, so it doesn't count. This is due to the switch from the Jacobian to the Gregorian calendar that occured in 1582, when to solar calendar was shifted by 10 days.

And by April 5, 3006, we will all be living on Alpha Centuri and the Gregorian calendar will cease to have any real meaning, so April 5, 3006 won't ever really exist either (I am willing to bet an entire mortgage payment on this one - go ahead, I dare you to prove me wrong!!!)

-dave

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No you didn't. See above message. :p :)

-dave

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I tried!! I tried!!

But still, It's going to happen twice tomorrow if you are on the 12hr clock.

But I still plan on staying up and screen-shooting it. Yay =].

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I think Dave is right about 1006 for another reason.

I seem to remember that we did not have 24 hour days until mechanical clocks were invented? At first clocks only had hour hands.

Does anyone know off the top of their head? In what year was the 24 hour day instituted?

and when were minutes and seconds added to our time keeping?

Im thinking it was well after the year 1006.

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I know what it is. I feel so brilliant (even though a bunch of other people have probably figured it out too). Just use your powers of observance, and you will get it eventually.

But, it isn't technically the last time it will happen. So I wonder what else might be happening along with it?

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I'm pretty sure that Alpha Centauri is a star. You can't live on a star.

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no, we cant live on a star today, in our present form of existance

but 1000 years from now, if Dave is correct, then we will

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*cheesiness*

If we follow our dreams, then we can all live on the stars

*/cheesiness*

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Ah, but in Canada (and other places that use dd/mm/yy) this will happen again on May 4th.

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What about this dave? :D

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uhmmm. no, it wont happen again in Canada - it will happen once in canada, on May 4th :^)

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I actually found this kind of ironic, since today I noticed what the digital date would be on June 6th, of this year. Then I saw this story, and was like.. oooh.. ok.. a cool number this time, and not a "bad" one.

:ahh:

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Well OK, it won't happen "again in Canada", but it will happen "again, in Canada", since if you were to head north between the two dates, you would witness it twice. :p

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I love science. :D

Actually, Alpha Centauri is a star (solar) system composed of three stars - two similar stars (Alpha Centauri A and B), and the very small and dim Proxima star. If you wiki Alpha Centauri, it says that computer models have shown that rocky planets (not unlike Earth or Mars) could have formed around Alpha Centauri A and/or B. Many of the same characteristics of our own solar system are present in Alpha Centauri, giving Alpha Centauri a fairly good chance of harboring earth-like life forms (it may be single cell archaebacteria or multi-cell protists or even fish/reptillian/land animals).

Okay everyone, bet your morgages that Dave is wrong. ;) Because if we move to Alpha centauri, we will most likely adopt local time as our own. Depending on the rotation of the planet[s] we inhabit, then there may exist a 01:02:03 04/05/06.

Note that I never said that one second on Alpha Centauri had to be the same as a second here on Earth. People are stubborn creatures. So we will invent seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years on Alpha Centauri just because we had them here on Earth. :p Easter Egg! lol. Dave is wrong, because even if we bet our morgages that he is wrong, our morgages most likely will not exist in 3006 and we will not exist either. Unless some crazy andriod things are invented. :-p

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yeah, but by then we will have come to our senses, and everything will be digital

and our calender will be binary

and we will get all excited when the time and date is something like 000100010001000100010001

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so in 3 years we can have 12:34 56 sec 07/08/09

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w00t.. I was awake for that earth shattering moment in time, and Ilet me tell you.. I'm a changed person after that.

:rolleyes:

I tried to post at that time.. But.. I uh.. couldn't find the thread fast enough.. :ahh:

I guess I'll have to wait until

12:34 on 5/6/07.

See you all then!!!!

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Personally, I am waiting for 07:07:07 07/07/07

-dave

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well 3/14/15 9:26:54 is coming up too....but we all know the only date that matters at this point is 04/27/06 07:30:00.

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Translation: Elgin stayed up late to post in this thread at the exact second

but was surfing the web and forgot, 37 minutes lapsed....

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Isn't there someone who wishes to get married on that day?

/ducks

AB

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I think I found it - Hey Dave - is this the reason why there will be no 2106?

The article says they will crash into each other in 7 million years, but if they are 7 million light years away it could be about to happen any second (or may have already happened).

How fast does a burst of gravity waves travel through space?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/200604...esboundtomerge

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Yes, but...
NASA has determined that on Feb 3, 2007, a miniscule black hole travelling through the outer arm of the Mikly Way Galaxy will pass through Earth. The transit time will be nearly instantaneous, and the Earth will survive the encounter. However, the local space/time fabric will be warped in such a way that that timeline for 154 days to either side of the collision will locally collapse around the singularity horizon. As a result, September 2, 2006, and July 7, 2007, will occur at the same instant. In this way, the desires of the primary participant in the referenced ceremonial event and the realities of limited options on location availability will both be satisfied.

-dave

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My fiance and I thought about seriously getting married that day.

And then we decided to wait until I graduate college.

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A statement that is simultaneously true and untrue. Newspeak?

True, it will only happen once this week around 1 in the morning.
False, the date and time of 01:02:03 4/5/06 happens at least once every hundred years. Twice in civilian life.

I remember listening to Allison Steele ("The Nightbird") on WNEW-FM 102.7 late one night when she simply said between songs "it's 12345678". It took me a moment to realize that it indeed was 12:34 on 5/6/78.

Not long after that, I remarked to a colleague that it was 12:35:56 7/8/90, one of each digit.

Don

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Im wondering now - when did we adopt the mm/dd/yy format for dates? if it was within the last 100 years then nobody ever observed that it was 01:02:03 on 04/05/06, because the date would have been written (most likely) as April 5, 1906 AD.

So technically, it hasnt 'happened' before.

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While many assert that the two-digit year format was adopted (meaning 'invented') to conserve data bits in computers mid-20th century, I have a hard time believing that people writing longhand in the 18th or 19th century with feather quills dipped in ink would find the need to use a four-digit year.

This article states that the clerical industry adopted that convention well before the 1930's onset of 'computers'. Now, if you look at official and formal documents, which also happen to be those most likely to be preserved today, they pretty much exclusively use the four digit date - just like today. But informal jottings, or numbingly repetitious journal entries by a clerk or accountant? Doubtful.

Ever hear of a "miner eighteen forty-niner"? Nope, the "18" was dropped. 2-digit year.

If 01:02:03 04/05/1906 came and nobody thought to write the date that way*, did it ever happen?

Don

(*minus the century, of course)

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why not? 100 years ago they had nothing better to do :^)

In 1906 the industrial revolution was just getting under way, many people lived on farms and most people in the cities worked in factories 12 hours a day. I dont think the book keeping notiations of clerks and accountants was used by the average person.

Its interesting to look back, we forget how many things we project on our ancestors, assuming their lives were just like ours.

Time for example. Seconds were not used as a measure of time until the mechanical clock was invented. The first clocks only had hour hands. A minute hand was added later, and then a 'second' hand was added, and suddenly we were all rushing around to be ontime to the nearest second.

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In Israel and Europe (not sure about Asia and the rest of the continents) the date
is written dd/mm/yy instead of the weird American way of mm/dd/yy. As a result, we will be experiencing the time 01:02:03 04/05/06 in 3 weeks.

David