Consecutive Integer Day
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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On the East Coast, it is about to be 12:34:56 on 7/8/09.
I’m pretty sure this has no significance whatsoever but it’s mildly interesting.
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Not on the Mayan calendar. :)
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And in a few years it will 12:34:56.789 on 10/11/12, but only for the briefest of instants.
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[...] Joyner notes the following: On the East Coast, it is about to be 12:34:56 on [...]
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The time and date format is a little silly to achieve this contrivance.
You start with a medium-sized unit known as the hour, then shrink to minutes and further still to seconds, then jump way up to a fairly big unit the month, then back down to a day, then up to a year. Not to mention we’re dropping several digits from the year.
But on the other hand, if it makes people happy …
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So, finished the crossword puzzle yet, James?
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But we really do not have to wait until 10/11/12 for another great number:
which will require an atomic clock to time the first sip of champagne!
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Heh. Actually, so busy that very short posts are all I have time for.
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I think I liked 1:11 1/1/1 better
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