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.
should we collect screenshots now? (Score:3, Interesting)
dp@tui:~$ perl -e 'print time(),"\n";'
1234567890
Exactly 1234567890 seconds? (Score:5, Interesting)
Except it won't because unix time doesn't account for leap seconds [wikipedia.org]
Re:Exactly 1234567890 seconds? (Score:2, Interesting)
+1, pedant.
epoch = 0x49999999 is on monday (Score:1, Interesting)
% date -ud @`hextodec 49999999`
Mon Feb 16 16:51:37 UTC 2009
And no, 0x50000000 isn't one second after that.
google front page (Score:2, Interesting)
google briefly changed their logo the below graphic:
http://www.google.com/logos/unix1234567890.gif
I almost missed it (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:should we collect screenshots now? (Score:3, Interesting)
My screenshot [blogspot.com]
I used 'watch -n'
Re:Wow (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm spending it at home with my wife and 18 month old daughter, who we named after the first computer programmer, Ada.
Hang in there, Mr Geek. Your time will come.