At 5:06:07 on Aug. 9, 2010 the numbers from time to date read 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Though this event only happened twice that day, (once in the a.m. and again in the p.m.), it was still a rare sight. Looking further into this oddity, a pattern was discovered; a sequence within time itself.
Shane Rice
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At 5:06:07 on Aug. 9, 2010 the numbers from time to date read 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Though this event only happened twice that day, (once in the a.m. and again in the p.m.), it was still a rare sight. Looking further into this oddity, a pattern was discovered; a sequence within time itself.
By removing the first two numbers of the year and placing the time before the date, as standard U.S. reads it, a 100-year pattern starts.
This pattern can only start on April 5 during a year that ends in 06. It runs for nine years and ends on Dec. 13 during a year that ends in 14.
The unique pattern happens twice a year for nine years where the numbers, from time to date, will run in a sequence.
“Because of the time shifts (Day Light SavingsTime), the lunar cycle, and leap year a unique pattern occurs,” Carl Campbell, Ph.D., geology professor at STLCC-Meramec said.
Based on the ideals and faults of the Julian calendar, the Gregorian calendar was devised as an arithmetical calendar.
The mean year, which had 365.2425 days (365 days, 5 hour, 49 minutes, 12 seconds) in the Julian calendar was slightly too long, causing the vernal equinox to slowly drift backwards in the calendar year according to http://history.com
Campbell said, “Time must have 11 seconds added to it every four years to balance out.”
The Gregorian year is divided into 12 months.
Despite the name, these are not synchronized with the phases of the moon; the terminology derives from the Roman calendar that preceded the Julian calendar. The 12 months are of irregular lengths.
