For some reason, I saw many people making a big deal about 12:34:56 pm today. This was due to the numbers in the date and time making a sequence of the digits 1 through 9. Well, it was 1 through 9 if you ignore the zero, or if you write today's date as 7/8/9. Personally, I have seen very few people write the year 2009 as the single digit 9. I have read that this is the only time this century that this will happen. My hometown newspaper, the Cedar Rapids Gazette, even had an article about this "phenomenon." For the article, the reported consulted with a mathematics professor who confirmed that this would indeed happen again in the year 2109.
The professor did point out that the only time this trule happened was in the year 9. Well actually it would have happened in the years 9 CE and 9 BCE. Of course this calendar system wasn't used in those years, and while I do not know how time was recorded then, I doubt it was with this much accuracy.
What the article failed to mention was that a sequence of the digits 1 through 9 will happen again at 1:23:45 on 6/7/89, as well as on 12:03:45 6/7/89, and 12:34:05 6/7/89. In the latter two of these, the zero would have to be ignored as it is with today's date.
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