Count on it
A friend writes:
This coming Sunday morning, May 6, 2007, at three minutes and four seconds after two o'clock a.m., the time will be [check it out]:
02:03.04, 05/06/07.Just thought you should know. Don't miss it! ;-)
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Comments (10)
I'll sleep through the event all the same, thanks. (Not that a terribly geeky part of me wouldn't love to stay up just to see it, but...)
Posted by GreyDuck | May 4, 2007 3:25 PM
2:03 on a Saturday night? Not a problem on my end.
Posted by Jack Bog | May 4, 2007 3:32 PM
Aha, but are you counting standard time or Daylight Saving Time?
Posted by Alan DeWitt | May 4, 2007 3:45 PM
Of course, this is utterly and completely wrong for countries that don't format their dates and times the way we do.
These sorts of things fail entirely to interest me unless there's a pattern in the sequence itself -- like largest increment of time to smallest.
So, like, wake me when it's
2007 June 05 at 04:03:02
or something.
Posted by b!X | May 4, 2007 4:11 PM
I'm just excited that 7:07:07 on 07/07/07 falls on a Saturday. Something tells me I'm going to forget to check my watch at 2am after Cinco de Mayo.
Posted by Bob | May 4, 2007 5:29 PM
10-4
Posted by rr | May 4, 2007 6:15 PM
What's big Sunday is Jupiter trine Saturn. And with moon in Capricorn, obviously: Earthquake.
The answer to, Where?, like the When? of the 5/6/7/02:34 thingie, depends on what time zone you're in.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | May 4, 2007 6:34 PM
...depends on what time zone you're in.
a very good question
Posted by rr | May 4, 2007 6:53 PM
I just hope this is better than 01:02.03 04/05/06. I think I was at the dentist's then.
Posted by Adrian | May 4, 2007 7:53 PM
THIS ain't much of a link, (expires by 5/6/7/23:00 PDT), I'd guess ... but merely to follow up my earlier "forecast," and conveniently, a timestamp joined with it. Wha'd you come up with, Jack, for time 'said and certain'?
Deep Quake Shakes Central Colombia 1:55 AM ET -- BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- An earthquake deep below the Andean ridge shook central Colombia just before midnight on Saturday. [That pesky timezone consciousness thing, again. This probablistically is 'midnight, Bogota,' which I think equals EasternUSA Time Zone. Some readers may forget the West coast of South America is East of New York City. continuing ...] Buildings in Bogota rattled for several seconds but no damage or injuries were reported. ...
Today in History - May 6 -- Today is Sunday, May 6, the 126th day of 2007. There are 239 days left in the year. ...
Posted by Tenskwatawa | May 6, 2007 4:03 PM