Once every hundred years, our time and calendar line up to make the amazing time of 12:34:56 7/8/9. And since this post went up exactly at that time, you totally missed it.
Nice work, jackass! You were probably doing something totally boring and didn’t look at your watch right as that second passed. The rest of us, where were paying close attention, sort of half smiled and though “oh, neat” to ourselves before going back to work.
If you’re desperate for that same feeling, there’s always 04:05:06 07/08/09 later this afternoon.
Ollie
July 9, 2009 at 7:36 AM
…only if you use the stupid American date system (mm/dd/yy). Us Aussies would get to do this in August.
Report PermalinkDarren
July 9, 2009 at 7:49 AM
What about the rest of the world that enjoys a dd/mm/yyyy format.
That special time still hasn’t occurred yet for another month.
Report Permalinkcranky
July 9, 2009 at 7:53 AM
way to fail yanktard.
the entire world except you wrote that date as 8/7/09
hahahahhahahaa
Report PermalinkRomper
July 9, 2009 at 8:42 AM
Cranky has…
wrote that date as 8/7/09
Going by that i guess we need to wait another 81 years (plus some) for…
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Alan Burchill
July 9, 2009 at 8:53 AM
Come to Australia and celebrate it next month…
Report Permalinkmatt
July 9, 2009 at 9:10 AM
pfft, not that it matters, ill probably totally forget then too
Report PermalinkNick Partridge
July 9, 2009 at 10:02 AM
I do remember 12:34 on 5/6/78, first year of uni and a radio station (Capital Radio, London – I think) announced it in passing. It has always been a hook to a time and place, an otherwise forgettable lunchtime a long time ago. Yes “oh neat” memory but nothing more.
The blind acceptance of the American date format does question the existence of this “Australian” version of Gizmodo – and it is not the first time I’ve wondered about this.
Report PermalinkNick Broughall
July 9, 2009 at 10:09 AM
There’s no blind acceptance here. We figured you’d be clever enough to work out the US date format and realise that it happens next month for us. Thankfully, you proved us right.
Report PermalinkDarkWolfhound
July 9, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Last year had 01:23:45 6/7/8
Report PermalinkSo not really all the interesting.
al
July 28, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Yes & no Dark Wolf:
12:34:56 7/8/9 uses all the numerals 1 to 9 in sequence – we can discount zero as it has no numeric value :)
And I am talking 7th August here in Melbourne!
Report Permalinkflyfloon
July 31, 2009 at 7:07 AM
this thing happened in the past 12:34:56 7/8/1009 or 7/8/0009 but it’s a nice thing a thing that happen every 1000 years :D
Report PermalinkAlien Anthropologist!
August 6, 2009 at 9:49 PM
American Exceptionalism ;) this stupid and absurd difference in standards cost $125 million when it caused a Mars mission to fail back in 1999.
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