April 5, 2006: Special Hundred-Year Date
Watch for it - this won't happen for another hundred years!
On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and
three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be:
01:02:03 04/05/06
That won't happen again for a hundred years.
You may now return to your life...
A few readers have suggested that this should read
“Special
Hundred-Year Date” BUT in 100 years the date would be April 5, 2106 and we won't
be calling 2106 “106”
will we? Soooooooooooooo, the next time this date sequence will come around
again will be on April 5, 3006 ... but perhaps you won't care by then!
Dan
Hagemeier says that the Special Thousand-Year Date should be April 5, 2006:
Special Hundred-Year Date. When the year is written in 2 digit format, 06 could
be ... 1906, 2006, 2106 ... 2906, 3006, 3106 ... etc. All that is needed is for
the
numbers in the hundreds and the ones places of the number to be 06.
May
6, 2007: Special Date
But
why is May 4th a very special day to the Joe-kster?