I found more information about dates. Here's an article published on February
2, 2002, that talks about palidromic dates. It uses military time.
It's 20:02.20.02.2002 whichever way you look at it; Marlow, Wil
Northern Echo 02-20-2002
"THIS evening, at precisely two minutes past eight, you have the chance to
experience a cosmic moment that won't happen again for another 110 years. For,
at that time, the time and date will read 20:02.20.02.2002 - the same backwards
as it is forwards.
Last year we had a palindromic date on February 10, which read 10.02.2001, and
also a palindromic time and date at two minutes past ten on the morning of
October 1 which was 10:02.01.10.2001. But neither was as magical as this one,
as adding or taking away the time left them distinctly different to their
mirror images.
And we should count ourselves lucky, as anyone over the age of 11 will have
experienced two palindromic years, with the last one in 1991. Normally, they
crop up only every 110 years or so - in 1771, 1881, and so on, with the next
one in 2112 - and it is only when a generation straddles a millennium that they
can savour two such dates.
At the turn of the first millennium, the gap was just two years, from 999 to
1001, but no one else will live through two palindromic years until after the
year 3000."
And this article published on 1/02/2003
A Date as Simple as 1-2-3: Numbers to Conjure With; Foderaro, Lisa W
"While most people were sleeping, the calendar -- with a little help from the
clock -- presented a mind-bending sequence of numbers early this morning, a
once-in-a-hundred-year occurrence: 01-02-03-04-05-06.
For those still awaiting a jolt of caffeine, that is today's date, followed by
the precise moment the clock read 4:05 a.m. and 6 seconds.
The simultaneous leap from one millennium and one century to the next a few
years back has provided a magician's bag of calendrical tricks and oddities. In
little more than a decade there were two years, 1991 and 2002, that were
palindromes -- words, or in this case numbers -- that read the same backward
and forward. That had not happened since 1881 and will not be repeated until
2112.
True, today's date may not ratchet up the excitement level among numerologists
and math mavens any more than such recent standouts as 09-09-99, 01-01-01 or 02-
02-02. Yet it still had the feel of a perfect storm for people like Thomas J.
Fernsler, an associate policy scientist in the Math and Science Education
Resource Center at the University of Delaware."
also "But for sheer acrobatics, today's date has nothing on Feb. 20, 2002. On
that day at 8:02 p.m., one could revel in a series of palindromes, as long as
the day and month were presented in reverse order, as is the custom in Europe.
Thus the date was 20/02. The year was 2002. And the time (military time anyway)
was 20:02."
I found both article using eLibrary searching with the terms 'numerology dates'.
I also discovered the word "calendrome" which means a year with palindromic
quality. The last was 2002 and the next will be 2112.
Belinda Holbrook
Media Specialist
Harrison Elementary
Davenport, IA
holbrook@revealed.net
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