May 4, 2006: Special Hundred-Year Date
Watch for it - this won't happen for another hundred years!
On Thursday of this week, at two minutes and
three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be:
April 5, 2006: Special Hundred-Year Date in North America!
01:02:03 04/05/06
That won't happen again for a hundred years.
You may now return to your life...
Robert Wragg,
Richard Thiessen & Idske Mulder point out that in Europe, the date string
"04/05/06" is short for May 4, 2006...
May
6, 2007: Special Date
But
why is May 4th a very special day to the Joe-kster?