Not exactly,
First, it happened again at 11:11am on Nov 11 1111.
And it will happen again at 9:12pm, Dec 21 2112. 21:12, 21/12 2112
probably not in our lifetime :-), but it will happen 1 more time.
Brian
>
>Believe it or not but 8.02 pm on February 20 this year will be an
>historic
>moment in time. It will not be marked by the chiming of any clocks or
>the
>ringing of bells, but at that precise time, on that specific date,
>something
>will happen which has not occurred for 1,001 years and will never happen
>
>again.
>
>As the clock ticks over from 8.01pm on Wednesday, February 20, time
>will,
>for sixty seconds only, read in perfect symmetry 2002, 2002, 2002, or to
>be
>more precise - 20:02, 20/02, 2002.
>
>This historic event will never have the same poignancy as the 11th hour
>of
>the 11th day of the 11th month which marks Armistice Day, but it is an
>event
>which has only ever happened once before, and is something which will
>never
>be repeated.
>
>The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was long
>before the days of the digital watch and the 24-hour clock at 10:01am on
>
>January 10, 1001. And because the clock only goes up to 23.59, it is
>something that will never happen again.
>
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