# Once in a hundred years event happening tonight!!!!!!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-in-a-hundred-years-event-happening-tonight/355313
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 3, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-in-a-hundred-years-event-happening-tonight/355313 "2006-05-03T22:28:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-in-a-hundred-years-event-happening-tonight/355313/1 "2006-05-03T22:28:52Z")
Tonight, after midnight, for the first time in one hundred years…
The time and date will be 01:02:03 04:05:06.
Cant wiat. Will we have a 123456 party?
Not as impressive as a few years back, on the twentieth of february after eight o clock, when the time and date was
20:02 20/02 2002
the last palindromic time ever. But hey, this’ll have to do.
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### Author:  [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-in-a-hundred-years-event-happening-tonight/355313/2 "2006-05-03T22:33:57Z")
Whoosh?
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-in-a-hundred-years-event-happening-tonight/355313/3 "2006-05-03T22:34:52Z")
Meh. I’m more excited about June sixth this year, myself.
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### Author:  [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-in-a-hundred-years-event-happening-tonight/355313/4 "2006-05-03T22:36:03Z")
> [@bubastis](#):
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> 20:02 20/02 2002
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> the last palindromic time ever. But hey, this’ll have to do.
Well, there’s still 21:12 21/12 2112. And 22:22 22/22 2222. And 23…
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-in-a-hundred-years-event-happening-tonight/355313/5 "2006-05-03T22:38:46Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#):
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> Well, there’s still 21:12 21/12 2112. And 22:22 22/22 2222. And 23…
Didn’t you realize the world was going to end in a few years?
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN??? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!?!?!?!
I love me some Insane Fundie Christian\*
\*band name
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### Author:  [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-in-a-hundred-years-event-happening-tonight/355313/6 "2006-05-03T22:39:10Z")
Sorry, you’re too late. We Americans already did this about a month ago.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-in-a-hundred-years-event-happening-tonight/355313/7 "2006-05-03T23:01:46Z")
> [@bubastis](#):
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> Tonight, after midnight, for the first time in one hundred years…
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> The time and date will be 01:02:03 04:05:06.
Dude, you’re like a month late. April 5th was weeks ago.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-in-a-hundred-years-event-happening-tonight/355313/8 "2006-05-03T23:08:55Z")
> [@bubastis](#):
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> Tonight, after midnight, for the first time in one hundred years…
What? A new episode of **Lost** is on?
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### Author:  [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-in-a-hundred-years-event-happening-tonight/355313/9 "2006-05-03T23:10:19Z")
> [@](#):
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> Tonight, after midnight, for the first time in one hundred years . . . The time and date will be 01:02:03 04:05:06.
Only for you furrin types who don’t use Merican style dates LIKE GOD INTENDED!
😉
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### Author:  [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-in-a-hundred-years-event-happening-tonight/355313/10 "2006-05-03T23:30:54Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#):
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> Sorry, you’re too late. We Americans already did this about a month ago.
Jesus, it took me a while to realise what was going on. We use dd/mm/yy, unlike you godless bastards. I thought that I missed an entire month, or something. |Im freakin exhausted. I need sleep… Cant wait up any longer… let me know how it goes… or went, whatever!
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### Author:  [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-in-a-hundred-years-event-happening-tonight/355313/11 "2006-05-03T23:38:11Z")
> [@Least Original User Name Ever](#):
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> Didn’t you realize the world was going to end in a few years?
> WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN??? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!?!?!?!
> I love me some Insane Fundie Christian\*
>
> \*band name
Interesting touch with the semi-hidden script.
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### Author:  [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-in-a-hundred-years-event-happening-tonight/355313/12 "2006-05-03T23:58:30Z")
I like the June 6, 2006 comment. Of course, I also find humor in the fact that the contract General Motors had with EDS expires on 6/6/06 as well…
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### Author:  [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-in-a-hundred-years-event-happening-tonight/355313/13 "2006-05-04T00:05:03Z")
and… there you go. How was it for you? For me, a bit… meh.
Now, back to me 01 02 03 40 05 06 countdown… ah nuts.