Tuesday, May 5, 2009

My mind goes strange places sometimes

OK so a co-worker had this on her cubicle wall:

At five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM on the 8th of July this year,  the time and date will be 04:05:06 07/08/09. This will not happen again for a thousand years.
 
So this fascinated me for some reason.  But after I came back to my desk and thought about it, I realized this would happen every year, right?  It would change by one each year for up to 12 months.  So I put it in excel (my personal mathematician) and realized that for the years in 2000, this first occurred in year 2006 and will end in 2014 and it occurs every thousand years.  Oh wait, isn’t it every 100 years? Like I said, my mind goes strange places sometimes.  Sorry but I had to share. Here's the numbers:


Hour
Minute
Seconds
Month
Day
Year
01
02
03
04
05
06
02
03
04
05
06
07
03
04
05
06
07
08
04
05
06
07
08
09
05
06
07
08
09
10
06
07
08
09
10
11
07
08
09
10
11
12
08
09
10
11
12
13
09
10
11
12
13
14

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