[78-L] ^Landmark event for those &c&c [FWD]

Bart garioch at texas.net
Sat Jul 11 18:24:29 PDT 2009


My wedding date was 9 / 9 / 99.  Leaving no excuse whatsoever for 
forgetting an anniversary...

Bart


Michael Biel wrote:
>>> And at one point today it was 12:34:56 on 7-8[0]9. Yippee.  dl
>>>       
>
> No, unless you are in the military, at TWO points today it was that
> sequence, not just once.  BUT that was only here in our part of the
> world where we print the month-day-year sequence.  In much of the rest
> of the world this sequence will not happen until 7 August.  
>
>
> On Wed, 7/8/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:
>   
>> Yessir,  life just don't get better than that! T
>>     
>
>
> Yes it does, because if you do not want to ignore the zero this still is
> not as good as the sequence was in 1990 or will be again in 2090 at
> 12:34:56 on 7-8-90, either July 8 or Aug 7, depending on your location. 
> Nor was it as good as it was at 1:23:45 on 6-7-89 either June 7 or July
> 6, 1989 or will be in 2089 if you prefer to again ignore the zero.  
>
> If you are someone who writes the dates year-month-day or
> year-day-month, then it would happen at 01:23:45 67-8-9 which was either
> August 9 or Sept 8, 1967 or 2067.  
>
> What the HELL am I doing up at this hour doing this crap???????????
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>   




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