Yes. Today's date. Once every 100 years, there is a day when the numbers of the day, month, and year will align as today's date does. And then, only insofar as the number of the year goes no higher than 12... extrapolating this, the final day of this century when all three numbers align will be on December 12th, 2012 (12/12/12). If you want to get technical about it, the final time for another century that all of the numbers in the date align like this will be on 12/12/2012 at 12:12PM, 12 seconds, and 12 milliseconds. Unless, of course, a 13th month is discovered before then. Unlikely.
Well, enough of that.
Interestingly enough, I had a show this morning. Prior to last Friday, it never occurred to me that there would be an episode of Completely Different on 9/9/09, otherwise, I'd have done a bit more preparation.
However, although 9/9/09 is auspicious in its own way, any Chinaman will tell you that the real fortune lies in the number 8. As a matter of fact, it was one year, one month, and one day ago that the day was 8/8/08. You may recall that the 2008 Summer Olympics began that day in Beijing... in addition, as the number 8 is so important in Chinese culture, the Olympics began not only on the Eighth day of the Eighth month of the Eighth year of the Second millennium, it also began on the Eighth second of the Eighth minute of the Eighth hour.
There is an alarm going off in the "Worthless Trivia" section of my brain! The 2008 Summer Olympics began at 8:08:08AM on 8/8/08.
In a similar fashion, you will notice that this post was made at 9:09AM on 9/9/09. As I wrote this in advance of the actual event, I was able to set such things up before I clicked "Publish".
So, for those of you who like long, drawn-out descriptions of stuff...
This post was made on the Ninety-ninth millisecond of the Ninth second of the Ninth minute of the Ninth hour of the Ninth day of the Ninth month of the Ninth year of the Second millennium.
Maybe in the future, there will be another "Spiny McSpleen" who is around to witness 9:09:09:99AM of 9/9/9999.
That's a bit far into the future, though, eh? Maybe just the Ninth day of the Ninth month of the Ninth year of the Ninth decade of the Ninth century of the Second millennium. 9/9/2999.
Too... many... nines!
