David Pogue Correction

I saw this story on Wired News. It came from New York Times columnist David Pogue.

As the story states: “Late tonight—specifically, 123 seconds after 1:00 a.m.—the time and date, for the first time in all of humanity, will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.” The story also mentions that this moment will never come again.

I beg to differ. This has occurred every 100 years and will occur every 100 years: ...1806, 1906, 2006, 2106, 2206, etc.

It’s just trivia, but…

This story seems to have gone viral. I saw it on the Web, it has been emailed to me, and I’m sure it has made the office circuit via traditional word-of-mouth. I don’t want to spoil the party for someone throwing a 01:02:03 04/05/06 bash, but come to think of it, at least it could be the party of the century.

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wrote on Apr 04, 2006 at 11:15 PM

Yep, I ameneded my original blog entry a few minutes later with a couple of postscripts:

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P.S.--Thanks to reader Alan Forkosh for pointing out that this magic moment arrives only in the U.S. and countries that represent dates in month/day/year order. If you live in Europe, you’ll have to wait about a month for the big moment to arrive.

P.P.S. --Reader George Grauke wrote to comment: “You are mistaken that this will never happen again. What about in the year 2106, 2206, etc.? And it also happened in 1906. It will happen whenever you use a 2 digit year.”

He’s absolutely right. Tonight’s 01:02:03 04/05/06 date is not the first, and will not be the last.
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---David Pogue

wrote on Apr 05, 2006 at 07:11 AM: David,
Thank you for the update. I enjoy your posts. It must be gratifying (or disconcerting) to know that you have millions of reader/editors to point out little nitnoids like this when there is an occasional clarification.
Greg