Let's see who can peg the ARFCOM posting timestamp for "Posted :: 4/5/2006 1:02:03 PM xxT"  You wont have another chance until April 5, 3006

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Stay Up Late And See Something Odd

POSTED: 7:19 pm EDT April 4, 2006
UPDATED: 7:19 pm EDT April 4, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Call it a coincidental sign of our digital times or a reason to stay up late and stare at the clock. Either way, early Wednesday morning the time and date will be 01-02-03-04-05-06.

At 1:02 a.m. and three seconds on Wednesday, April 5, 2006, it will be the first hour of the day, the second minute of the hour, the third second of that precious minute in the fourth month and the fifth day of ... uh oh. It's not really the sixth year.

It's actually 2006 _ only in our shorthand is it '06.

"It just happens to be a chronological oddity," said Geoff Chester, spokesman for the U.S. Naval Observatory, an official world atomic clock timekeeper. "If you were to use the full year, that would screw things up completely. You do have to bend it a little if you want to make it work. That's what you call 'Finagle's Law of Best Fit'."

Even numerologists, such as Rob Ragozzine, who runs the SimplyNumbers.com web site, dismiss the 1-2-3-4-5-6 moment as merely "a neat coincidence" because of that pesky 2006 thing.

"People are interested in numbers," said Jack Horkheimer, 67-year-old host of the Star Gazer public television show and executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. "Would I stay up all night waiting for it? Ten years ago, I would have had a party. Now, I will probably be deep in the arms of sleep."

There are less bleary-eyed alternatives. There's 1:02 p.m., but Horkheimer said that's really 13:02 p.m. and doesn't really count.

Chester recommends celebrating universal time, the standard scientific time, which is four hours ahead of eastern daylight time. So 01-02-03-04-05-06 can be celebrated at 9:02 p.m. EDT by calling up the U.S. Naval Observatory's "master clock" then and waiting for the universal time pronouncement, he said. That number is 202-762-1401.

The clock is also on the web at: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what1.html.

For much of the world, especially Europe, this odd line-up of numbers doesn't really happen until next month. That's because many countries put the number of the day first, then the number of the month. So for many places, 01-02-03-04-05-06 happens at 1:02 a.m. May 4.

The whole 1:02:03 4/5/06 thing has been posted before, so this is hardly official.

Quoted: Stay Up Late And See Something Odd

Or just reset your alarm clock and see it right now, and anytime you want.  

Quoted: We're not going to have a 2106?  Crap, better change my plans.

Good catch

I will be watching porn

Ill be at work taking a nap then....

i'd say i'm a safe bet, just by sheer numbers alone.  i'm a scattershot at the target

yawn

Quoted: i'd say i'm a safe bet, just by sheer numbers alone.  i'm a scattershot at the target

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Yes, I would say you sure do have a good chance.

I admit, I went to bed before 1:02 am, maybe 100 years from now I'll try again