This is interesting. This will not happen again.

[SHADOWFOX]

On Wednesday
of THIS week,

at two minutes

and three seconds

after 1:00 A.M.
in the morning,

the time and date

will be

01:02:03 04/05/06.

The title should have been it will happen again .

[wreckwriter]

Sure it will, in 100 years.

[crokett]

That won't ever happen again.

Then what happens at 2:03 past 1:00 PM on Wednesday the 5th?

[SHADOWFOX]

This is the end result of somebody that has fingers faster than their brain

[wreckwriter]

This is the end result of somebody that has fingers faster than their brain

Its still pretty cool

[JR]

Then what happens at 2:03 past 1:00 PM on Wednesday the 5th?

That would be 13:02:03 on 04/05/06.

[LCHIEN]

if you guys want to be technical it's all the result of culture-specific formats.

in reality your date/time should be

01:02:03 05/04/2006
the five being the date in european format comes before the month which makes more sense because the numbers are in magnitude order (e.g. days are shorter than months which are shorter than years). Likewise the time is actually in inverse order. Finally the year is truncated again for convenience.

The most logical would be to have the most significant quantity first as in

2006/04/05 01:02:03 if you were logging this then the sort order would be correct.
However strictly speaking the origin (zero point) of this system is arbitrary, and the divisions are not uniform powers of any base - we have base 365.25, base 24, base 60 and god knows what for months. It's a horrible system.

So, the date and time as numbers are totally meaningless.

[crokett]

That would be 13:02:03 on 04/05/06.

I don't see a 13 on any of my clocks. Or my watch.

[Stormbringer]

Sure it will, in 100 years.

Are you sure? I thought April was supposed to be removed from the calendar year in 2018. Supposedly will save fuel....kinda like why they were talking about extending daylight savings time a few month ago.

Greg

[drumpriest]

Being a bit of a sceptic (in the philosophical sense of the word), since I won't exist to experience it in 100 years, it dosn't happen.

[mater]

That is pretty neat.

[gary]

Won't it happen 24 times that day?

[Copper]

I remember back in '90 when the date and time were 12:34:56 7/8/90. No one seemed to care then. I thought it was cool.

[alpha]

Well, I missed it. I guess I'll have to wait for 06:06:06 06/06/06.

Bob

[mycatisretarded]

I survived! Crawled into the bomb shelter just after 1pm sat down and ate some leftover y2k cheese and just hoped for the best. glad that one's over.