01:02:03 04/05/06
It’s now 01:02:03 04/05/06.
This feat will not be replicated for 100 years, by which time Halley’s comet will have returned, there will have been another solar eclipse on the UK mainland and I, in all probability, will be dead.
Revel in this consecutive chronological spectacle while it lasts! You’ve got precisely one second, which will already be gone by the time you read this.
Ah, well; such is the transient nature of time, human existence and our arbitrary timekeeping and calendrical systems.
May 4th, 2006 at 08:46
No, it wasn’t, it was “2006/05/04 01:02:03″. Or “two minutes and three seconds past one on the fourth of May, 2006″. Or “1146700923″. And only in our time zone, which is - in itself - only used by us for half the year.
Basically, it’s an arbitrary number, as you said, but it’s not even a terribly interesting one. Ah well.
May 4th, 2006 at 17:49
Talking of Unix timestamps, I can’t wait until Friday February 13th 2009 at 23:31:30 GMT. A man clearly so besotted with pointless celebration of forced numerical coincidence as myself will truly relish that second.
(Non-geeks: Google “unix timestamp converter” and enter the date and time I just stated. Really. You’ll love it.)
May 5th, 2006 at 21:31
What fun. You now find yourself in the esteemed company of the ever cheerful middle-brow punster Nick Owen, presenter of Midlands Today, who reported this very coincidence at the end of the 10.30 bulletin last night.
Damned by association.