It's the 12th day of 12th month of the 12th year.....

Tanypteix writes: One of 3. There is also one at the Naval Station in Maryland and one in Westford, Mass., where I used to work. They are linked up to each other and are constantly telling each other their status ("ooo, i'm falling behind a tad, better catch up to you guys" or "oops, getting ahead, better slow it up to fall back with you guys"). Accurate right down to a Gordon Lightfoot (1 nano second).Adding a leap second every once in a while is NOT easy.

Last year we had 11/11/11 11:11:11. BUT!====> hey it wasn't all 12's!it was 2012/12/12 12:12:12 - the big 2000 in front if the year is a killer....maybe 2020? Nope:2020/20/20 20:20:20 no month 20. clock is okay with the 24 hour day. some might say wait - 2020/20/20 is 2021/8/20 like today is January 349th.so we could have a 2222/2/22 22:22:22 in the future....What were they doing back in the year 1111 on 11/11 at 11:11:11? Did they even know? Were there still errors in the Calendar that were changing? And what of the Jewish year? The Chinese? The Australian Aboriginal calendar? Why not just go to the Big Bang then? Why even use Earth orbits to determine the length of a year?

Panda offers: On this Earth, yes. Of course. But why would it be logical over the entire universe as a whole? Who the hell are we to say what should prevail across the universe?What would a logical time unit roughly the size of an Earth year be, independent of local orbiting systems? Hmm.