1,234,567,890 Seconds Since Unix Time Began 187
os2man was one of many readers to let us know that later on today, at 23:31:30 UTC (30 seconds after this story went live), the number of seconds since January 1st 1970 will be exactly 1234567890. January 1st, 1970 marks the start of the clock for the Unix operating system and many other operating systems. Here is a list of celebrations of the moment around the world.
FIRST (Score:5, Funny)
Woo hoo! (Score:4, Funny)
Happy 1234567890, everyone!
zomg zomg let's party like it was 1111111111 !1!!! (Score:3, Funny)
n/t
Can't be good (Score:4, Funny)
First I find out today is Friday the 13th and now this. I'm surprised today isn't some cult's doomsday.
Epoch win (Score:5, Funny)
EPOCH WIN
http://xkcd.com/376/ [xkcd.com]
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Happy sequential Unix time day.
I am spending it drinking alone on a Friday night and wishing I had a girlfriend. How are the rest of you guys celebrating?
Re:Can't be good (Score:5, Funny)
Doomsday?! No way man, we're celebrating with some blue kool-aid! It's the only way to
I missed it (Score:5, Funny)
I wrote a countdown script but then I got confused. Guess I have to wait for the 64-bit one :-(
I was so close... (Score:5, Funny)
> time.pl
1234567889 (Fri Feb 13 23:31:29 2009)
> timepl.
timepl.: Command not found.
> time.pl
1234567893 (Fri Feb 13 23:31:33 2009)
Stupid typo!
Re:What is everyone drinking? (Score:1, Funny)
30 day old PBR.
Re:numerology: factors of 1234567890 (Score:4, Funny)
sorry to break it to you but the set of even primes is quite small.
In case you wondered what is special (Score:3, Funny)
about the number in question, I might have found an explanation. Consider the sum, as n goes from zero to b-1, for some base b, of n*b^(b-n). For the case of b=10, which seems to have a special meaning to some people, the sum results in the celebrated number.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
I spend every Friday night like that
Re:Wow (Score:0, Funny)
I am spending it drinking alone on a Friday night and wishing I had a girlfriend. How are the rest of you guys celebrating?
I have a girlfriend, you insensitive clod!
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
I'm spending it drinking at home with my wife. Pretty much the same.
Also, thanks to her, I didn't get to actually see the numbers change at coolepochcountdown.com. I mean, ffs, I've had this page open for over an hour, watching the time countdown, and you wait until 10 seconds before the pivotal moment to ask me to do something, causing me to look away ever so briefly and miss it? ARGH!
Re:numerology: factors of 1234567890 (Score:5, Funny)
sorry to break it to you but the set of even primes is quite small.
True, an even prime is really odd.
Re:What is everyone drinking? (Score:5, Funny)
378,683,112 second old Glenfiddich for me.
Re:What is everyone drinking? (Score:2, Funny)
Wasn't it actually more of a countup? :>
Re:Wow (Score:2, Funny)
First date in years :). It's like the gods of unix (linus himself?) came down from the heavens and sorted it out for me.
Or maybe I just asked her out when we were drunk, one of the two.
Re:Wow (Score:4, Funny)
Happy sequential Unix time day.
I am spending it drinking alone on a Friday night and wishing I had a girlfriend. How are the rest of you guys celebrating?
About the same. Oh, except my wife is asleep in the next room.
Re:Wow (Score:1, Funny)