For the digitally inclined, Wednesday marks a cool spot in sequential history. At exactly 12:34:56, the time and date will be 12:34:56 7/08/09. That only happens once -- or twice -- every 100 years, so for some, it's worth celebrating.

Plenty on Facebook and Twitter are spreading reminders or cluing others in. Rainn Wilson, the actor who plays Dwight on "The Office," tweeted about it, and on Facebook, pages popped up commemorating the date. Jon Everett, a 23-year-old University of Texas at Austin employee, created a Facebook page about the date with more than 600 Facebook users R.S.V.P.-ing yes to his "two-second celebration."

But there's always a spoilsport.

Many point out the time comes twice today, in the a.m. and in the p.m. (though, if you're on military time, 12:34 a.m. would be 00:34 a.m.). Nitpickers say the actual date is 7/08/2009, so the true 7/08/09 was 2,000 years ago. Others note serial dates aren't all that unusual (1/02/03 4:56, and 1:23:45 last year on 6/07/08).

And Miguel Lerma of the Northwestern University Math Department writes in an e-mail that 12:34:56 7/08/09 arrives in August for countries that put the day before the month in numerical date abbreviations. Some countries even use the year/month/day designation, which means their 7/08/09 was two years ago.

In any case, it seems safe to say it's no harbinger of Armageddon. It might've been weird when people picked 6/06/06 for weddings and a lucky coincidence to choose 7/07/07, but serious Cubs fans know the first night game at Wrigley Field was played on 8/8/88 -- which just happens to be four sideways infinity symbols.

They need to keep their fingers crossed that isn't the wait for a championship.