Tomorrow will be
a day like no other

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I'm partial to natural symmetry, so I'm fond of sending colleagues messages like "Look at the time!" when it's 11:11 on Nov. 11. But Star-Bulletin reader C.W. Chaffee has alerted us to an awesome alignment of the celestial digitals.

It seem that at 8:02 p.m. tomorrow, Feb. 20, the time will -- for a mere 60 seconds! -- read 20:02, 20/02, 2002, or 2002 2002 2002.

"The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was long before the days of the digital watch and the 24-hour clock," points out Chaffee. "On Jan. 10, 1001. And because the clock only goes up to 23:59, it is something that will never happen again."

Actually, the 2002 2002 2002 symmetry will occur 24 times tomorrow, once in each time zone. Chances are, by the time you read this, it's already started.

--Burl Burlingame

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