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12/12/12 is the last triple date sequence we will see in our lifetime – the next one will be 1/1/2101. The number twelve is central to the Western calendar and units of time – for instance there is 12 months in a year, day and night are made up of twelve hours each. We celebrate the twelfth today with Cork journalist Pat Fitzpatrick!