Early Wednesday Morning Will Be 01-02-03-04-05-06

[Bowwowmeow]

Stay Up Late and See Something Odd


By SETH BORENSTEIN (AP Science Writer)
From Associated Press
April 04, 2006 11:17 AM EDT
WASHINGTON - Call it a coincidental sign of our digital times or a reason to stay up late and stare at the clock. Either way, early Wednesday morning the time and date will be 01-02-03-04-05-06.
At 1:02 a.m. and three seconds on Wednesday, April 5, 2006, it will be the first hour of the day, the second minute of the hour, the third second of that precious minute in the fourth month and the fifth day of ... uh oh. It's not really the sixth year.
It's actually 2006 - only in our shorthand is it '06.
"It just happens to be a chronological oddity," said Geoff Chester, spokesman for the U.S. Naval Observatory, an official world atomic clock timekeeper. "If you were to use the full year, that would screw things up completely. You do have to bend it a little if you want to make it work. That's what you call 'Finagle's Law of Best Fit'."
Even numerologists, such as Rob Ragozzine, who runs the SimplyNumbers.com web site, dismiss the 1-2-3-4-5-6 moment as merely "a neat coincidence" because of that pesky 2006 thing.
"People are interested in numbers," said Jack Horkheimer, 67-year-old host of the Star Gazer public television show and executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. "Would I stay up all night waiting for it? Ten years ago, I would have had a party. Now, I will probably be deep in the arms of sleep."
There are less bleary-eyed alternatives. There's 1:02 p.m., but Horkheimer said that's really 13:02 p.m. and doesn't really count.
Chester recommends celebrating universal time, the standard scientific time, which is four hours ahead of eastern daylight time. So 01-02-03-04-05-06 can be celebrated at 9:02 p.m. EDT by calling up the U.S. Naval Observatory's "master clock" then and waiting for the universal time pronouncement, he said. That number is 202-762-1401.
The clock is also on the web at: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what1.html.
For much of the world, especially Europe, this odd line-up of numbers doesn't really happen until next month. That's because many countries put the number of the day first, then the number of the month. So for many places, 01-02-03-04-05-06 happens at 1:02 a.m. May 4.

[Oracl]

...many countries put the number of the day first, then the number of the month. So for many places, 01-02-03-04-05-06 happens at 1:02 a.m. May 4.
Yep, I'll have to wait until next month! :crying: :D

[Bowwowmeow]

Well I am glad you won't miss it then. I figured by the time I posted it was already to late for you, as you exist only in my future, and I in your past. :wacky:

[Oracl]

Well I am glad you won't miss it then. I figured by the time I posted it was already to late for you, as you exist only in my future, and I in your past. :wacky:
:dizzy: :D

[Bowwowmeow]

Has it happened down under yet Oracl? Did you forget to look at your clock? :hourglass:

Here's a little trivia for today:


Today in History - May 4


By The Associated Press
From Associated Press
May 03, 2006 7:00 PM EDT
Today is Thursday, May 4, the 124th day of 2006. There are 241 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On May 4, 1945, during World War II, German forces in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany agreed to surrender.
On this date:
In 1626, Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on present-day Manhattan Island.
In 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labor demonstration for an eight-hour work day turned into a riot when a bomb exploded.
In 1904, the United States began building the Panama Canal.
In 1916, responding to a demand from President Wilson, Germany agreed to limit its submarine warfare, thereby averting a diplomatic break with Washington.
In 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded.
In 1932, mobster Al Capone, convicted of income-tax evasion, entered the federal penitentiary in Atlanta.
In 1946, a two-day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay ended, the violence having claimed five lives.
In 1961, a group of "Freedom Riders" left Washington for New Orleans to challenge racial segregation in interstate buses and bus terminals.
In 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others.
In 1976, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser announced that "Waltzing Matilda" would serve as his country's national anthem at the upcoming Olympic Games.
Ten years ago: Grindstone won the Kentucky Derby, giving trainer D. Wayne Lukas an incredible sixth straight victory in a Triple Crown race.
Five years ago: Pope John Paul II began a visit to Greece, where he issued a sweeping apology for the "sins of action and omission" by Roman Catholics against Orthodox Christians. Bonny Lee Bakley, wife of actor Robert Blake, was shot to death as she sat in a car near a restaurant in Los Angeles. (Robert Blake, accused of the killing, was acquitted in a criminal trial but was found liable by a civil jury and ordered to pay damages.)
One year ago: A military judge at Fort Hood, Texas, threw out Pvt. 1st Class Lynndie England's guilty plea to abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, saying he was not convinced the Army reservist knew her actions were wrong at the time. (England was later convicted in a court-martial and sentenced to three years in prison.) A suicide bombing at a police recruitment center in Irbil, Iraq, killed 60 people. Prosecutors rested their case in the Michael Jackson molestation trial. ABC aired a segment of "Primetime Live" in which former "American Idol" contestant Corey Clark claimed an affair with judge Paula Abdul, who denied the allegation.
Today's Birthdays: The president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, is 78. Jazz musician Maynard Ferguson is 78. Opera singer Roberta Peters is 76. Jazz musician Ron Carter is 69. Rock musician Dick Dale is 69. Singer-songwriter Nick Ashford is 64. Actor Paul Gleason is 62. Pop singer Peggy Santiglia (The Angels) is 62. Country singer Stella Parton is 57. Actor-turned-clergyman Hilly Hicks is 56. Singer Jackie Jackson (The Jacksons) is 55. Rhythm-and-blues singer Oleta Adams is 53. Country singer Randy Travis is 47. Actress Mary McDonough is 45. Comedian Ana Gasteyer is 39. Rock musician Mike Dirnt (Green Day) is 34. Contemporary Christian singer Chris Tomlin is 34. Rock musician Jose Castellanos is 29. Singer Lance Bass ('N Sync) is 27.
Thought for Today: "The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher (c.604-531 B.C.)

[Oracl]

Has it happened down under yet Oracl? Did you forget to look at your clock? :hourglass:
It happened early this morning, unfortunately I was asleep at the time! :zzz: :crying: