Another Significant Moment in Time!

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Another Significant Moment in Time!

Postby ssar » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:27 pm

On May 4th, at two minutes and three seconds after 1 o'clock am, the time and date will be:

01:02:03 04/05/06.

Using a variation of the common European/Australian short form.

Note: the ISO 8601 international standard date notation was implemented in 1988 in preparation for the year 2000 (and the likely end of the world when all systems crash at midnight etc.)

I didn't actually realize this notation was around, and is thus:

yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss

See the following links for info on this:

http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/software/ ... index.html

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html


So the date and time noted above really is:

2006-05-04 01:02:03.. Not so cool!

A couple of hours later it will be:

2006-05-04 03:02:01 - that counts I guess.

Hmmm, using the full ISO Date format, there doesn't appear to be many very significant moments in time in the near future..

Bleh, let's go back to the common short form and look forward to a little after 6am on the 6th of June upcoming... 06:06:06 06/06/06.

In any case, I hope to survive these upcoming Significant Moments in Time.
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Postby Cirath » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:14 pm

If that is what you call a significant moment, what would qualify as trivial?
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Postby Kifle » Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:23 pm

Cirath wrote:If that is what you call a significant moment, what would qualify as trivial?


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Postby ssar » Wed May 03, 2006 11:55 am

OMG only about 3 hours until this Significant Moment in Time!

Brace yourselves!

I hope I survive.
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Postby Yasden » Wed May 03, 2006 1:50 pm

You see, that moment in time came for the rest of us on April 5th, almost a month ago. We're all still here, I'm sure you'll come out just fine. But if you develop a nasty case of the clap...

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Postby ssar » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:53 pm

Another imminent Significant Moment In Time (S.M.I.T.) event..

(My definition of a S.M.I.T. is when the figures in the time & date at a certain instant in time form a significant and/or interesting pattern.)

For example, tomorrow morning (several hours after this post is submitted), using a standard common Australian format, at 9 mins & 7 secs after 7am, the date & time can be written thus:
07/09/07 07:09:07 - (9 minutes & 7 seconds past 7am on Friday the 7th of September 2007)

Another example: During Tuesday morning the 6th of June 2006, using a standard common format used in many parts of the world, at 6 mins & 6 secs past 6am the date & time was:
06/06/06 06:06:06

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Note 1) The official modern International Standard of Date & Time notation, ISO 8601 specifies a format other than the above, which results in much rarer S.M.I.T. events when adhered to.
That is, the instant in time mentioned would at least be expanded to:
2007-09-07 07:09:07

But even then that is still ammended from the full ISO 8601 format, which at Greenwich, England, is shown thus:
2007-09-07T07:09:07Z, or even: 20070907T070907

The inclusion of letters in the official format somewhat detracts from a S.M.I.T. event, but it is not unreasonable to remove these & use a combination of casual & official formats, resulting in:
070907070907

Note 2) At 9 mins & 7 secs after 7pm on the same day (Friday the 7th of September 2007), the popular 24 hour time quoting convention again detracts from the S.M.I.T. claim as it would be shown thus:
07/09/07 19:09:07 - (9 minutes & 7 seconds past 7pm on Friday the 7th of September 2007)

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Some interesting possibilities arise when you start to use Roman Numerals to represent numbers, as well as applying varying degrees of time & date format conventions from around the world.

SO, brace yourselves for this upcoming, and all future S.M.I.T. events - I hope we survive those which we can reasonably expect to experience within our lifetimes.
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Postby Corth » Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:04 pm

You self-centered Aussie's and your "standard common Australian format" are ridiculous. What.. do you think the whole world revolves around Sydney? *roll*

I hereby revoke your 'continent' status. From now on its just another island. I'll reconsider this action if toril 2.0 is ever released.. muahahaha!
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Postby ssar » Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:09 pm

Corth wrote:You self-centered Aussie's
LOL. Pot calling kettle eh.

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Oh, and watch out for the next, quite S.M.I.T. occuring in around 25.5 hours from now - At just after 9mins past 9am tomorrow (Sunday) morning, it will be: 09/09/09 09:09:09.

Brace yourselves.
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Postby Tasan » Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:26 pm

The hell... it's not 2009 you damned aussie freak.
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Postby sok » Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:13 am

today is.. wait nothing significant. wrong thread sorry
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Postby Kegor » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:45 am

Your post count is hereby unofficially setback by 1,000 for your limited contributions to, or creation of, any real subject matter.

i know this hurt sok in post count but need be done cuz sok post crap
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Postby ssar » Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:55 am

Tasan wrote:The hell... it's not 2009 you damned aussie freak.


LOL, I was 2 years out! Doh.
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