At 12:34:56 today, the time and date could be viewed as 123456789 (if you ignore that 0).
I'll bet this was much cooler in 1990.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell