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| photo taken at 12:12 PM. EST on 12-12-12 |
Poor Dec. 12. It’s
one of the year’s more interesting dates, but Dec. 21, what with all its doomsday this
and end-of-the-world that, is completely monopolizing the spotlight.
Sure, Dec. 21 is the winter solstice and the day that countless legions of
gloomy doomsayers have anointed as the pinnacle of important dates, but Dec. 12
deserves some attention too. So in honor of the 346th day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar, here’s what Dec. 12 has to offer:
The Astronomical
Society of the Pacific has declared Dec. 12, 2012, as Anti-Doomsday
Day in celebration of rational thinking and reasoned discourse.
Dec. 12 is the last
of the repeating dates until Jan. 1, 2101. Repeating dates (like 12/12/12) can,
for obvious reasons, only occur in the first 12 years of a century.
At 12:12:12 p.m.,
the day will offer fans of the number 12 a whopping six repeats! 12/12/12
12:12:12. Nice.
At 1:21:02 a.m.,
palindrome lovers everywhere can rejoice in the single second that marks when
the date-time combination is the same read both forwards and backwards:
2012-12-12 1:21:02 = 201212-1-212102.
But perhaps most
fascinating of all, Dec. 12 is National
Ambrosia Day; once known as food to the gods, now known as canned
fruit combined with Cool Whip, sweetened coconut, mini-marshmallows, and the
food-dye bombs called maraschino cherries. Yuk. Which leads us to think that perhaps
Dec. 12 would have made a good candidate for doomsday after all. This is the first and last time that I have been photographed on a repeated date in history.
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