The specific date is not known however it was between 1148 and 1161.
Of course accuracy is not the point of the film, and the specific date is a somewhat arbitrary symbol for "the not too distant future," in the same way that George Orwell's 1984, written in the year 1949, was about where things were headed, not how they would actually be.
Ambrose continued to draw on his supposed Eisenhower interviews in subsequent books, including the two-volume biography, although in the later footnotes the specific dates were replaced with vaguer notations, such as "Interview with DDE".
"My suspicion is that this specific date was picked, and a certain number of people expected".
Near the end of the year (no specific date was given, but it will likely be after Election Day, according to the Wall Street Journal) a vote will be taken, and the FCC will either gain control as a regulating authority over broadband service, or the Internet as we have known it will be forever altered.
On 11 August, it was widely announced, and later confirmed, that the film would be released to theatres in October 2009, though at the time no specific date was released or confirmed.
But the American request for a specific date was frustrated.
"She has got it so documented, so she's going to have a little news conference over the next couple of weeks". No specific date was set for that press conference, which has yet to occur.
This specific date was originally chosen to achieve the shortest encounter time given the spacecraft's now limited expected lifetime.
The show will make its debut in 2012, though no specific date was given.
This feAture will get puspecific in an upcoming update.
