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Ah - Dates, again :)

How about February 13th, 2009 at precisely 23:31:30 UTC the Unix/POSIX time will be 1234567890!

AND it's Friday the 13th!

Now if that's not an omen I don't know what is...
 
I just done the maths and EHLO is right. It even is Friday 13. Is this the end of the world?

Oh sorry that was 1/1/1900 the day after 31/12/1999. I spent ages getting work computers Y2K compliant.
 
The trouble is we seem to get the end of the world every few weeks.

It's remarkable how much the post- world resembles the ante- world, isn't it?

I wonder - if we get an end of the world this Friday, for example, then another one week later, does the second one restart everything?

That might explain. :)

YBW
 
I just realized that tonight the time will 02:43.29 on 05/10/2007. Also, next week we will have 12:44.31 on 05/16/2007. When will those ever happen again?
 
All start of all century will have date like that, and there are 8 of them ascending :
01:02:03 at 4/5/06
02:03:04 at 5/6/07
03:04:05 at 6/7/08
04:05:06 at 7/8/09
05:06:07 at 8/9/10
etc...
08:09:10 at 11/12/13
And as much descending
06:05:04 at 3/2/01
07:06:05 at 4/3/02
etc...
16:15:14 at 13/12/11 (yeah on a 24 hours clock :P).

This happens at every start of century. So within our lifetime, unless you are living longer than 100 years *AND* were born shortly before such date you will see it only once.

But for humanity, it will happens every century. In 1900, 1800, 2000 2100...

There is nothing special for humanity in 02:03:04 5/6/7 *AND* there is nothing special in starting with 2 to 7, as next year we will ahve a 3 starting to 8.

Number are funny, you can associate all sort of meaningless stuff to them.

PS: about living a century I hope very soon to wish good birthday to my Grand Mother. Which is 98 years old. I wish I could live as old as her with as much brain as she still have...
 
For files I always use 20070511 to represent 11 May 2007. It is interesting to see this is an ISO standard.

I also use zeros where data is missing or irrelevant. For instance, 20070500 for May 2007 and 00000101 for New Years Day in an unknown year (many public transport timetables are poorly presented).

I guess I will have to renumber everything in December 9999.
 
Dates I've already lived through in my lifetime (and am still here to talk about), and ditching leading zeroes to make them seem more portentous:

12:34:56 7/8/90
1:23:45 6/7/89

Twice within a year! It's a wonder I'm still alive!
 
Aepervius said:
PS: about living a century I hope very soon to wish good birthday to my Grand Mother. Which is 98 years old. I wish I could live as old as her with as much brain as she still have...
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I think that is already too late.
 
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