Triple-time palindrome: 8:02 PM on February 20 this year will be a historic moment in time.
It will not be marked by the chiming of any clocks or the ringing of bells, but something will happen which has not occurred for 891 years. As the clock ticks over from 8:01 PM on Wednesday, 20 February, time will, for sixty seconds only, read in perfect symmetry 2002, 2002, 2002, or to be more precise:
20:02, 20/02, 2002 (European date/month system: see below).
The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was long
before the days of the digital watch and the 24-hour clock: 11:11 AM on 11 November, 1111 (see below for American month/date system).
Future folks will see it again at 9:12 PM on 21 December, 2112:
21:12, 21/12, 2112.
That is, assuming that some form of calendar reform hasn't occurred by then, and assuming the species makes it that far. If we do, we might even have clock reform. Think metric time: 100 seconds to the minute, 100 minutes to the hour, 10 hours to each half of the day.
Metric seconds would be .432 of the old second. The metric minute would measure .72 of an old minute. The metric hour would be 20% longer than the old hour.
No, before that happens, we'll have currency reform. Come around the year 2030, and people will be reluctant to give up their old, traditional Euros, when the Globo replaces that currency along with the NAFTA Dollar, the Southern Peso, the PanAsia, and a few other surviving currencies.
The British, however, will still drive on the left.
And the Queen Mother will be 130 years old.
European date/month system
10:01, 10/01, 1001 (10 January)
11:11, 11/11, 1111 (11 November)
20:02, 20/02, 2002 (20 February)
21:12, 21/12, 2112 (21 December)
American month/date system
10:01, 10/01, 1001 (October 1)
11:11, 11/11, 1111 (November 11)
12:21, 12/21, 1221 (December 21)
(Netlore, with commentary on calendar, clock, and currency reform by Randy Alfred.
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