01:02:03 04/05/06

[alicia-w]

we use the dd/mm/yyyy format too in many organizations in the govt.

as for the party pooper comment, if folks have that much time and energy for something so trivial, imagine what you could do with those same assets for something of importance!

[x-y-no]

so on June 6, 2006 at exactly 6:06 am and 6 seconds it becomes

06:06:06 06/06/06

cool

The number of the beast squared?

[Brent]

so on June 6, 2006 at exactly 6:06 am and 6 seconds it becomes

06:06:06 06/06/06

cool

[TexasStooge]

no, because then it would be 13:02:03 instead of 01.

Not unless you put it on AM/PM mode.

[greeng13]

so on June 6, 2006 at exactly 6:06 am and 6 seconds it becomes

06:06:06 06/06/06

cool

The number of the beast squared?

that is kinda scary now that i think about it...i hope there are no TC's in the Atlantic Basin then

[GalvestonDuck]

so on June 6, 2006 at exactly 6:06 am and 6 seconds it becomes

06:06:06 06/06/06

cool

The number of the beast squared?

Not if you get technical -- there are zeros involved. Even if you don't read all of them, no one says six minutes and six seconds after six o'clock as "six six six." They might not say the first zero, but typically the time is read as "Six-oh-six-oh-six." Even without seconds, it's read as "Six-oh-six" numerically.

Same for the year -- we don't call this year "six" for short. It's "oh-six" if not "two thousand and six."

So, based on the most common ways to read that numerically, it would be something like "six-oh-six-oh-six six-six-oh six."

No fears!

[Brent]

06/06 is June 6 which is the anniversary of D-Day.

Freaky.

[HurryKane]

I could swear I read somewhere that someone discovered the mark isn't actually 666 but another number. Can't recall though.

[wxmann_91]

It's already over.

01:02:03Z was a quarter of an hour ago.

[JonathanBelles]

but not in est time

edit: im not used to the time change i mean edt

[breeze]

This won't be happening here until next month.

I've got a question as this has confused me for a while. Why do you put month/day/year in your date format? It confuses me all the time when I look at US based websites. Tomorrow is 5/4/2006 to everyone here.

P.K., it's just an American thing - we do month/day of month/year,
and you do day of month/month/year.

We have to confuse each other, don't we?

[CajunMama]

P.K. I guess it's because when you say the date, the month is said first. April 5, 2006.....4/5/06

[CajunMama]

i missed posting at 1:02:06 (or close) on 04/05/06 by 2 minutes!

[P.K.]

P.K., it's just an American thing - we do month/day of month/year,
and you do day of month/month/year.

We have to confuse each other, don't we?

lol

It just seems odd to me the shortest period isn't first. In reply to the post above most people here actually say the day first so I think it is an American thing made up to confuse the rest of the world.

[Aslkahuna]

Why not? we do a lot of things to confuse the rest of the World.

Steve

[alicia-w]

This won't be happening here until next month.

I've got a question as this has confused me for a while. Why do you put month/day/year in your date format? It confuses me all the time when I look at US based websites. Tomorrow is 5/4/2006 to everyone here.

P.K., it's just an American thing - we do month/day of month/year,
and you do day of month/month/year.

We have to confuse each other, don't we?

not every one in the US uses this format. Most of the fed agencies use the day month year format....

[greeng13]

P.K., it's just an American thing - we do month/day of month/year,
and you do day of month/month/year.

We have to confuse each other, don't we?

lol

It just seems odd to me the shortest period isn't first. In reply to the post above most people here actually say the day first so I think it is an American thing made up to confuse the rest of the world.

and you guys over there talk funny too!!!

[Pburgh]

I say old chap, I personally loveeeeeee an English accent.

[ohiostorm]

I remembered and was on my comp at the time and watched it. Guess I'm a loser!

[pojo]

We do confuse the rest of the world. Its fun!

I emailed the class that I corresponded with while I was deployed... the teacher just covered it! How Ironic.