Nice observation by Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey:
“I’ve timed this post to go up at 12:34 ET this afternoon in order to celebrate an event that happens twice every hundred years, and happened for the second time today. The clocks will read 12:34:56 on 7/8/9 a mere 56 seconds after this post goes up in the Eastern Time Zone, as they did 12 hours earlier. It’s quirky and esoteric, but also a little bit of fun.
The previous occasion of this kind of sequencing took place in 1978, at 12:34 on May 6th. When that moment arrived, I was rehearsing for a school musical (Bye Bye Birdie), and I had everyone stop and wait out the full minute.”
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Thursday, 9 July 2009 at 8:02 AM
no one told me!
I’m so disappointed that I missed it.
I’m bummed out now.
Thursday, 9 July 2009 at 8:52 AM
At 9:87:65 on 4/32/1 we will have a similar experience. Crazy.
Thursday, 9 July 2009 at 9:35 AM
Plane– This should’ve been front page news on Tuesday, like reminding us to reset our clocks. I had only two hours warning.
NC– Whoa. Anti-time.
Tuesday, 14 July 2009 at 4:05 AM
Some crazy “chronomystical” snazziness you got going on here. Given my proclivities, I LOVE the idea of “anti-time”, too. To me this is, well, timely.
Tuesday, 14 July 2009 at 9:52 AM
Necro– I like the idea of time zones with different chronological densities. Say you have a 3-hour layover at Chicago-O’Hare. If you went to the room furnished with dense time, it would seem more like 3 minutes.