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'Chronological oddity' set to occur on Wednesday

ctv.ca — You don't find this happening every day. In a virtual blink of the eye early Wednesday morning, the time and date will be 01-02-03-04-05-06.

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  • ratatask, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16For the better part of the world, 1:02.03 04/05/06 will however be on May 4.
  • Bob82, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I prefer 12:34:56 on 7/8/09.
  • tomee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The ISO 8601 standard specifies the date as YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss and I think this is the best.
  • b_timmins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Actually YYMMDDHHmmSS is the only logical (and thus extendable) way unless you want to get into arguments about decimal time!
    060504030201
    This means that the real time of this chronological oddity is one second past two minutes past three (am) on the fourth of May oh six :-)
  • kyriakos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I hate US date format.
  • nights0223, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8ugh, one of these got on the front page. hopefully it will be gone soon.
  • knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2or 100 years....

    or go to europe in a month.
  • sajb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ofcourse, we ISO-confirming people had out own.. (20)06-05-04 03:02:01:00
    No silly ambiguities here.. :)
  • knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3...are you kidding me?

    This was on the front page today. Did you even read the bold red text that said duplicate story when you submitted this?

    reported.
  • orangekid13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this went around in an email... it said it "won't ever happen again!"
    except for in 100 years! retard
  • WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Damn...I missed it...now I'll have to wait 10,000years!
  • nights0223, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4no, 1 PM is 13:00
  • xodex, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Best method would be Year / Month / Day

    IMO
  • vandy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1totally missed that one...
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Damn, I sort of missed it, but I notice that right now it's 1:23 4/5/06, so I guess that's just as good.
  • knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1At least Im not a mexiacan immigrant
  • orangekid13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12106 IS 100 years from now you asshat
  • Genius16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1or until the PM version comes around 12 hours later! haha
  • habenneas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe dupe
  • soogy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, next month if you use YYMMDDhhnnss May 4th = 06/05/04 03:02:01.

    Or again every 100 years.

    Or 07/06/05 04:03:02, etc. etc. You people need more things to fill out your day. Wow, the clock just hit 3:45! IT'S A MIRACLE!!
  • robotplague, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My mind will be blown in 6 minutes...
  • elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, it 'makes sense'

    But that doesn't make it proper.
  • elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As an American, I completely agree. The problem is that people here are too stubborn and ignorant to allow change. I personally use DD MM YYYY, ( and metric for measurements ).
  • fintan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually 01-02-03-04-05-06 is still about a month away if you use proper (British) dates. Doesn't it make sense to put the day before the month?
  • himynameiznate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually, it will be 1144224123. Sheesh...
  • knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1or until 2106...
  • kaflooey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, did anyone notice last May at 5 past 8 PM on the 20th what the time / date was?

    20:05 20/05 2005

    So watch out for 6 minutes past 8PM on 20th June this year...

    British time of course :)
  • intoflatlines, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1for the hell of it, i went to that official time site but around 01:01:50 it started lagging so much when i tried to refresh it. i guess too many people were doing the same thing.
  • Genius16, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i had more fun on 9:8:7 6/5/4 than i ever had on this 1:2:3 4/5/6
  • ByteGuerilla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1you're an idiot
  • vinh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+101:02:03 PM 04/05/2006

    FOR ME! i get twice the FUN!
  • AprilEthereal, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6this has been posted so many times, no offense man, but do a search first
  • charge, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1With 12hour time it is twice! Who uses 24hour time, pshwa.
  • charge, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1What about 1:02 pm May 4? There's AM & PM... it happens twice in the same day.
  • hoofarted, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Thus making all time references on the Internet null and void! Day/Month/Year.... Not that hard to conform to.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -17/+1Good post kid

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