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.
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technically it's a dupe.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/2043206 [slashdot.org]
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technically it's a dupe.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/2043206 [slashdot.org]
Why do you hate us? Can't you just let us have our fun?
(although I guess you are technically correct, which, after all, is the best kind of correct [geocities.com]).
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Really? I saw fireworks [coolepochcountdown.com].
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So did I, while on the ##1234567890 channel, good clean geeky fun.
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good clean geeky spamming fun :P
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Um, the epoch hasn't changed.
Woo hoo! (Score:4, Funny)
Happy 1234567890, everyone!
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nth post (Score:2)
should we collect screenshots now? (Score:3, Interesting)
dp@tui:~$ perl -e 'print time(),"\n";'
1234567890
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1234568297
damn it I missed it!
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My screenshot [blogspot.com]
I used 'watch -n'
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PHOTOSHOPPED! [xkcd.com]
zomg zomg let's party like it was 1111111111 !1!!! (Score:3, Funny)
n/t
Yay! (Score:1)
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.
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
Have a nice Doomsday! (Score:2)
Doomsday cults are based on weird ambiguous predictions by lost civilizations [survive2012.com], medieval seers [wikipedia.org], or some crazy dude who just knows how to rant in an entertaining manner:
I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands.
And among the lampstands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.
His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.
His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.
He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.
When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid. I am the first and the last, and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore."
Against competition like that, some silly pattern in a computer clock simply doesn't rate!
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No shit Sherlock. Computers don't get the good drugs that people get. And we want to keep it that way.
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Yes, I can read your mind. No psychic powers, just transparent thought processes.
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So then enlighten me, asshat...because I am calling BullShit.
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What he said.
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I googled the text the previous poster quoted and apparently it's from "revelations" which I'm pretty sure is part of "the bible" so it's only natural that most regular people can't recognize the quotes from it while most jews (mostly the post-messianic ones) seem capable of throwing out a seemingly endless number of random quotes from it.
I would've been more impressed by a quote from Principia Discordia but I suppose the bible has it beat when it comes to the sheer amount of insanity.
/Mikael
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Exactly 1234567890 seconds? (Score:5, Interesting)
Except it won't because unix time doesn't account for leap seconds [wikipedia.org]
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+1, pedant.
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The correct information [slashdot.org] was modded -1 the last time this topic came up, and the wrong information was perceived as +5 informative by the mods.
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+2, pedant
Don't forget to add 'up' * the effect.
*keep adding to +*, pedant to P,GP,GGP, and OP posts- pass it up!
Re:Exactly 1234567890 seconds? (Score:5, Informative)
The average person does not understand the difference between UTC and UT1. That is why Unix does not account for leap seconds. UTC uses SI seconds. Unix uses the rubber seconds that the average person understands. So, the correct statement is "At 23:31:30 UT1, the number of seconds since January 1st 1970 will be exactly 1234567890."
Besides, it doesn't matter anyway, since this is simply for fun (and part of the fun is annoying pedants).
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Neither do you understand the difference. The difference between UTC1 and UTC [wikipedia.org] is less than 1 sec, so it cannot explain the 24 second difference.
Want you really want to say is that you're counting mean solar seconds between 23:31:30 UTC (or UT1) and January 1st 1970.
It's UT1, not UTC1. And they are kept in sync by adding seconds in UTC, since UT1 is mean solar time, counting mean solar seconds, and so the seconds in UT1 are longer than the seconds in UTC.
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Except it won't because unix time doesn't account for leap seconds [wikipedia.org]
See here [slashdot.org]!
Epoch win (Score:5, Funny)
EPOCH WIN
http://xkcd.com/376/ [xkcd.com]
What is everyone drinking? (Score:3, Insightful)
I've got 15 year old Laphoraig here.
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Wasn't it actually more of a countup? :>
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30 day old PBR.
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Leffe Blond, Lefee Brune, Hoegaarden. It was on offer at the supermarket. What else is your average lonely computer nerd going to drink?
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A dry Martini, with a big, fat, oil-soaked, blue-cheese stuffed olive at the end.
That's what else.
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Love your sig, man. Great album. What God wants, God gets, God help us all!
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La Chouffe of course, the best beer Belgium has to offer :)
Re:What is everyone drinking? (Score:5, Funny)
378,683,112 second old Glenfiddich for me.
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Heh (Score:2)
Meanwhile, this "auspicious" has happened on (dum, de dum, dum dum!) a Friday the 13th! Seems suspicious to me, like someone planned it, for nefarious reasons, no doubt.
If I make a "paper boat", that is large enough, from tin foil, will that count?
Timing == Everything (Score:5, Insightful)
Isn't it a bit late to be posting the list of celebrations?
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?
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you think you have it bad? In Australia it's valentines day as well, just to rub salt into our wounds...
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I'm recovering from a stomach flu. My pregnant wife is watching TV while I work up the energy to play a video game to take my mind off the nausea. Tomorrow, assuming I'm recovered enough, we have a pregnancy class thing to go to...
So not much celebrating here :(
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Yes, I'm fully aware that I'm doing little more than complaining. Everyone deserves to complain once in a while...
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It's a "third trimester" class... stuff like how to recognize when it's time to go to the hospital (before it's too late, that is), they give a tour of the hospital so you know where to go, some other stuff.
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Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
I spend every Friday night like that
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!
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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: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.
Thanks Unix! (Score:1)
In other news... (Score:1, Informative)
Joss Whedons new series Dollhouse will start airing today. Will be friggin epoch :>
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I figure Fox will cancel it after 13 episodes, just like they did to him last time. I used to think Joss was smart, but here he is, back with Fox, with a TV show with an interesting premise, and they've got him on Friday night again.
If they do it to him again, I'll be disappointed, but I won't feel sorry for him this time.
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Oh, no, I tuned in. I am a member of the One True Church of Joss. I liked it. I didn't have that immediate "I'm in love with this show" that I did with Firefly, but it was definitely watchable and intend to keep watching it.
I just hope he knows what he's doing... "fool me once" and all that. :-)
Screen grab. (Score:2)
Happy 23:31:30 UTC everyone! (Oddly a 13th Friday!)
(I swear I didn't check the AC box, weird.)
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Yea, happy 1234567890 everyone! Looking forward to the next one.
Let's see, that would be 12345678900 or 12345678901 right? Hmm, that works out to 2361/3/21 19:15:00 UTC. Err, maybe not. Variables using 32 bits to store the epoch time would have blown up before then anyway.
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Well, if nothing else at least a lot of us should still be alive to see that one (2038/1/19 03:14:08 UTC). That's always a plus in my book.
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Cool. here's mine [blogspot.com]
Decimal bias? (Score:1)
The binary milestones are more interesting. They might have actual implications.
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:I was so close... (Score:5, Insightful)
Most of us use command recall. Let this be a lesson to you.
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Exactly. Though I just used watch -n 1 [blogspot.com] to make sure I caught it
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Guess I have to wait for the 64-bit one :-(
Good luck with that.
numerology: factors of 1234567890 (Score:4, Informative)
123456890 = 2 * 5 * 17 * 751 * 967
Aaargh ! If only it had been prime.
Oh, wait just 1 more second.
1234567891 is prime :-)
Re:numerology: factors of 1234567890 (Score:4, Funny)
sorry to break it to you but the set of even primes is quite small.
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.
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that's not even funny
I want a day off! (Score:2)
Eh, call me when they decide to make it a national holiday and give me the day off. Bah, humbug!
It looks like (Score:5, Informative)
Google 1234567890 [snipurl.com]
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.
drinking game (Score:2)
list of celebrations... (Score:2)
more like places to avoid.
Happy Unbirthday (Score:2)
Congratulations on your 1001001100101100000001011010010 seconds, Unix!
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)
Nice party, let's do it again (Score:2)
Great party guys! I'll see you all 2361 to celebrate 12345678900!
Web page in Catalan? (Score:2)
Linked page is in Catalan?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language [wikipedia.org]
Weird.
Missed It (Score:2)
Now the only thing I have to live for is for it to progress to 0x12:3456:7890 - which is a long time away.
This does not impress me. (Score:2)
I am only amused that the world did not end again. I mean, based on past experience.
1234567890 forever bound to love (Score:2)
Hello,
I think 1234567890, falling on Valentine's Day for everyone between Paris and the Pacific, is now a date inextricably bound up with love. It's a once in a lifetime (once in history?) event and is just right to express the idea of sharing an instant in eternity with someone special.
I made a special valentine card entitled, 1234567890 - Be Mine Forever [victoriantreasury.com] that you can freely use any day, any year, to express your love for someone who might find the idea charming.
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And what will be the Unix time at December 21st, 2012 11:11 UTC [greatdreams.com]?
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That's Bodging 101. Engineering 101 is almost, but not quite, completely unrelated.
So, 1356088290 +/- 30(ish)
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Who's asking anything? [thedailyshow.com]
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