There’s a 2 and a 0 zero in there.
Hurray, people will now stop talking about something that wasn’t even proper. Yesterday at 11:11, was just 11/11/2011 11:11, or to put it in my preferred time format (yyyy:mm:dd:hh:mm) 2011:11:11:11:11. I think it quite odd how many people are willing to totally ignore the two and the zero in there. Until we change our time system, the next all ones date (with years being the highest unit used) won’t be until the year 11111.
On a somewhat different but still related note, isn’t it odd that we just let years count up and up for our standard time format. I suppose it’s because after the unit of years, the well known divisions go in increments of ten; what with decades, centennials, and millennia, so it’s pointless to separate them out (since we have a decimal system). We could make further units in there that aren’t ten based, but that probably isn’t the best solution. Ideally, since we are fond of our ten based decimal system, we would make all of the units divisions of ten; but practically this doesn’t seem very feasible. Oh there is so much history behind our system of the measurement of time that you could talk about it forever.



