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It happened before, it will happen again.

Everyone seems fascinated that on Wednesday, 123 seconds past 1:00a, the date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. Some have even gone so far as to say this will be the only time in human history it will ever happen.

Ummm, think again — how quickly we forgot what caused the Y2K bug…

Where New York Times columnist David Pogue latched onto this fascinating factoid, there’s no telling. But as randomly useless bits of trivia go, this is definitely worth noting.

Pogue writes: Late tonight — specifically, 123 seconds after 1:00 a.m. — the time and date, for the first time in all of humanity, will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

And, Pogue points out, this moment will never come again.

Forget the fact that Wired pointed out that Europe transposes their day and month, they still made the mistake of saying that this will never happen again. WRONG.

It will happen every 100 years, as long as we only use the last 2 digits of the year. C’mon people!!

2206, 2106, 2006, 1906, 1806, 1706 … get it now?!

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