[Northkeep] Too cool date thing

Marc Carlson marccarlson20 at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 14 21:01:36 PST 2002


>From: Istvan Temesvari <istvan at micahtek.com>
>After thinking about this for a while (I am interested in numbers and
>patterns), I discovered a few things. It has actually happened two >other
>times before:
>11:11 AM, November 11, 1111 AD
>1:10 AM, October 1, 110 AD (if you pad with zeros)

Unfortunately there was no 110 AD.  The "Anno Domini" year scheme was not
established until the 500s by Dionysius Exiguus.  Unfortunately, the
assumption that these are the only times this could have happened are
somewhat Eurocentric -- there ARE other dating systems.

M/D

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