This won't make any sense to Americans (who put the day and month the wrong way round) but anyway... At two minutes past eight this evening, the time and date will be:

20:02.20.02.2002

The last time something similarly palindromic happened was nearly 900 years ago: 11 minutes past 11am on November 11 1111.

The next time all three elements of time, date and year will be palindromic will be 110 years from now: at 12 minutes past nine on the evening of December 21 2112.

After that, we'll have to wait nearly 1000 years until the next triple palindromic date on March 30 3003

I expect that I'll be dead by then...