01:02:03 04/05/06

By now you've all seen the news that shortly after 1 o'clock this morning the time and date could be written as 01:02:03 04/05/06.

I saw one email that said that it would never happen again.

Oh, yeah?

• What about this afternoon? I don't use a 24-hour clock, so 01:02:03 will occur in the p.m. as well


• What about next month? Most of the world writes the date in the form day/month/year, so for them the 4th of May will be written as 04/05/06


• What about every hundred years? The 04/05/06 example is omitting the century designation — is that going to change in 2100?

As for me, I think I'll just party like it's 1999.