Borklog: One entry

19 February 2002

8:02 pm on February 20 this year will be an historic moment in time.

It will not be marked by the chiming of any clocks or the ringing of bells,
but at that precise time something will happen which has
not occurred for 1,001 years and will never happen again.

As the clock ticks over from 8.01pm on Wednesday, February 20, time will,
for sixty seconds only, read in perfect symmetry 2002,
2002, 2002, or to be more precise - 20:02, 20/02, 2002.

The last time there was such a symmetrical pattern was long before the days
of the digital watch and the 24-hour clock - at 10:01 am
on January 10, 1001. And because the clock only goes up to 23.59, it is
something that will never happen again.