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The time is 1-2-3-4-5-6-7

IT'S a once in a century event - but blink and you'll miss it. At 12.34pm today, a sequential phenomenon will eventuate.

For that lonely 60 seconds in history, it will be 12.34pm on the fifth day of the sixth month in the year 2007.

Under the Australian standard time and date format, this means it will be 12.34pm on 5/6/07.

The 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 time and date sequence is rare and happens just once every 100 years.

Mathematically, it is a one-in-100 million chance.