February 20 this year will be
a historic moment in time.
It will not be marked by the chiming of any clocks
or the ringing of bells, but at that precise time,
on that specific date, something will happen
which has not occurred for 1,001 years,
and will never happen again.
As the clock ticks over from 8.01pm on Wednesday,
February 20, time will, for sixty seconds only,
read in perfect symmetry 2002, 2002,2002,
or to be more precise 20:02, 20/02, 2002.
This historic event will never have the same
poignancy as the 11th hour of the 11th day of the
11th month which marks Armistice Day,
but it is an event which has only ever happened
once before, and is something which
will never be repeated.
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 at
10.01am on January 10, 1001.
And because the clock only goes up to 23.59,
it is something that will never happen again.
From our archives, 2/20/2002
