The Boston Diaries

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Monday, April 03, 2006

It'll never happen again, unless it does happen again …

From: Dad <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
To: The Kid <sean@conman.org>
Subject: SOMETHING THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN …
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 03:02:06 EDT

On Wednesday of next 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 ever happen again.

Hate to say this Dad, but it will happen again, next month, in Europe, when it will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 (they print dates DD/MM/YY instead of this crazy backwards US way of MM/DD/YY).

Also, according to Mark Evanier, it'll happen once a century and for those of you using non-military time, it'll happen twice!

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