Chronological oddity '01-02-03-04-05-06' slipped by overnight
By AP

WASHINGTON -- You don't find this happening every day. In a virtual blink of the eye early this morning, the time and date were 01-02-03-04-05-06.
At 1:02 a.m. and three seconds on Wednesday, April 5, 2006, it was the first hour of the day, the Buy cheap online valium valium : second minute of the hour, the third second of that precious minute in the fourth month and the fifth day of -- uh oh -- it's not really the sixth year.
It's actually 2006 -- only in our shorthand is it '06.
"It just happens to be a chronological oddity," said Geoff Chester, spokesperson for the buy cheap online valium valium Naval Observatory, an official world atomic clock timekeeper.
"People are interested in numbers," said Jack Horkheimer, 67-year-old host of the Star Gazer public television show and executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium.
"Would I stay up all night waiting for it? Ten years ago, I would have had a party. Now, I will probably be deep in the arms of sleep."
For much of the world, especially Europe, this odd line up of numbers doesn't really happen until next month.
That's because many countries put Get online valium : buy cheap online valium valium number of the day first, then the number of the month.
So for many places, 01-02-03-04-05-06 happens at 1:02 a.m. May 4.

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