JEDDAH, 20 February — This is not a believe-it-or-not sort of story. This is something that’s going to happen. Yet, believe it or not, 8.02 p.m. tomorrow (Feb. 20) will be a historic moment. At that precise time, on that specific date, something will happen which has not occurred for 1,001 years and will never happen again. As the clock ticks over from 8.01 p.m. on Feb. 20, time will, for sixty seconds only, read in perfect symmetry 2002, 2002, 2002, or to be more precise — 20:02, 20/02, 2002. It is an event, which has only ever happened once before, and is something which will never be repeated. The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was long before the days of the digital watch and the 24-hour clock — at 10.01 a.m. on Jan. 10, 1001. And because the clock only goes up to 23.59, it is something that will never happen again, according to an e-mail message from G.K. Srinivasan, an Indian business management executive based in Bombay.