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Last chance in the next 100 years for you to celebrate one of our calendar's... oddities, if you will
November 11th, 2011, at 11:11
In short it will write as "11-11-11 11:11" (all ONEs, a single digit)
Next time that will happen is in year 2111.
It's not really perfectly uniform this time around. It was in year 11, year 111, year 1111, and will be again in year 11111 (9,100 years from now)
The next best thing after this one, although that will not be a single digit, is on december 12th, year 2012, at 12:12 pm = 12-12-12 12:12
Please don't get me wrong here, I'm not saying your computer will crash on this date or anything
But it IS a unique temporal mark on our western calendar none-the-less. And a fun 'oddity' because the time between these uniform dates grows by an order-of-magnitude (and 1) each time you pass one (from year 11 to 111, from 111 to 1111, etc. The next date is always 10 times (and 1) further away than the date before it)
So happy uniform-date day... or whatever we should call it (if it doesn't already have an official name)
November 11th, 2011, at 11:11
In short it will write as "11-11-11 11:11" (all ONEs, a single digit)
Next time that will happen is in year 2111.
It's not really perfectly uniform this time around. It was in year 11, year 111, year 1111, and will be again in year 11111 (9,100 years from now)
The next best thing after this one, although that will not be a single digit, is on december 12th, year 2012, at 12:12 pm = 12-12-12 12:12
Please don't get me wrong here, I'm not saying your computer will crash on this date or anything
But it IS a unique temporal mark on our western calendar none-the-less. And a fun 'oddity' because the time between these uniform dates grows by an order-of-magnitude (and 1) each time you pass one (from year 11 to 111, from 111 to 1111, etc. The next date is always 10 times (and 1) further away than the date before it)
So happy uniform-date day... or whatever we should call it (if it doesn't already have an official name)