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123456789 Happens Today

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it dept.

mcgrew writes "The Chicago Tribune is pointing out that shortly after noon today, the time and date will be 12:34:56 7/8/9. The Trib points out that this happens only once or twice per century, although it actually happens twice on the day it happens in. Serious Cubs fans know the first night game at Wrigley Field was played on 8/8/88 — which just happens to be four sideways infinity symbols. I imagine you can make any day 'special' like this if you try hard enough."

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  1. Already happened in February by tepples · · Score: 2, Informative

    Converter says that UNIX time 1234567890 happened on 2009-02-13.

    1. Re:Already happened in February by process · · Score: 2, Informative

      Well.

      As the summary states (RTFS?), this is not about epoch time. Also, that event was well covered earlier this yer when it occurred.

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