Neat in a math-geek sort of way!

Here's an interesting email I got the other day:
Subject: Interesting tidbit from the Naval Time Observatory

As the clock ticks over from 8:01PM on Wednesday, February 20th, 2002, time
will (for sixty seconds only) read in perfect symmetry. To be more precise:
20:02, 20/02, 2002. 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 (or the 24-hour clock): 10:01AM, on January 10, 1001. And because the
clock only goes up to 23.59, it is something that will never happen again.



The 20th of Feb is my mother's birthday...