Happy 123456789 Day!
It may not make it into the history books, but it'll probably be mildly exciting to see it happen.
In just a few minutes, the time will be 12:34:56 and the date will be 07/08/09.* This is only going to happen once so we figure it's news worthy enough to make the site on a slow Friday.
So, what are/were you doing when the clocks read 123456789? Let us know in the comments section below! If you missed it, well, don't worry, you didn't miss much. Just the time really.
Screenshots at the ready, everyone . . .
*Note: We're going by ET here, so if you're in another time zone where this hasn't happened yet, consider this article a sticky note. Set your alarms now!
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But next year it'll be 2:34:56 and it can be 08/09/10
Damn, I've missed it... it's 20:00 here in Romania
Hah! You Europeans. We Americans (with due deference to all "Americans" not of the United States), put the month first, so this is all old news. Not saying we have it right. Just saying.
But next year it'll be 2:34:56 and it can be 08/09/10
Where's your seven, man?
See, there I go, putting my foot in my mouth. Jane, if you are using Eastern time, then you are in America, so "traditionally", Americans would do todays date as 8/7/2009. Perhaps because that's the way our digital watches display it.
Where's your seven, man?
and the one....
Hah! You Europeans. We Americans (with due deference to all "Americans" not of the United States), put the month first, so this is all old news. Not saying we have it right. Just saying.
I'm Canadian and it's more common here to go with the dd/mm/yy format.
Hadn't we already done this in July?
I think the ISO or military standard of time is YY/MM/DD so the "real" holiday was Aug 9, 2007.
Dullness. Doesn't even have the 0.
It will be more interesting in 80 years, (and was 20 years ago as well), when 01:23:45 6th July 2089, (or for those in the USA who do the month first June 7th)
0123456789.
All ten numbers, happens every hundred years, the format for this story misses out the 0 and happens every 10 years.
YAWN!
And 1 year later
12:34:56 7th August 2090, (or 8th July for USA)
1234567890
Either way is good
someone should use them as this weeks lottery numbers LOL
Stop posting crap like this and do you jobs as tech journalists.
Actually, this happened back in Feb... Unix timestamp 1234567890 = Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 GMT. The real one was a bigger deal and many more sites, including google, "celebrated" it.
I don't see a big deal to this as the date could be arranged so that there were multiple 123456789 days...
Pretty stupid imo.
What are you talking about that was last month
123456879 you're a bit bass ackwards!
Losing to my phone in Texas Holdem cuz it freakin' cheats...
Wow, I read this article exactly 35 seconds before it happened.
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/274094/123456789.jpg
See, there I go, putting my foot in my mouth. Jane, if you are using Eastern time, then you are in America, so "traditionally", Americans would do todays date as 8/7/2009. Perhaps because that's the way our digital watches display it.
In Canada we put the day first, not the month... And it makes sense. Go from smallest to biggest, or biggest to smallest, not mix and match!
And yes, it is confirmed. Missed it by a month...
NooOoOOOO! Well since I've been rated down I might as well just reference the fact that DC2 is coming and the only date that means anything is 9-9-09 and the beatles is only a cover up
believe
my brain stopped working on y2k... damn bug!
It's the end of the world as we know it.....
Oh.. too bad I'm on a different time zone.. It's 14:50 already..
On a side note, shouldn't be 8/7 for you americans (they do get everything mixed up anyway, look at football, the sport only that uses hands and has foot on the name. weird. lol)..
Can you imagine something being called "handball" though? Sounds like a cheap porno or something...
Can you imagine something being called "handball" though? Sounds like a cheap porno or something...
Handball is a sport...
Handball is a sport...
ha! that's like saying water polo is actually a sport.
Having mm/dd/yy never made sense anyway, since its arbitrary so is the 123456789 thing.
I use yyyymmdd hhmmss on everyting now, so much easier, never have to worry if something is going to sort the date right.
I was driving to the bank on 12:34:56 08/07/09. Seems a little anti-climactic.
The end of the world is going to happen its a sign! OMG get in your caves, pull out that stockpile of food, water, blankets and ammo madness is going to occur when the clock stricks 123456789!
If you write the date dd/mm/ccyy and smallest to largest unit of measure is the method...
Then do you write date/time as:
ss:mm:hh dd/mm/ccyy?
Just curious
lame