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date +%s Turning 1111111111
initsix writes "Break out your party hats. According to http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm , Unix time is supposed reach 1111111111 on
Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:58:31 GMT
That's only 1036372537 seconds from 2^31 (ie Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:08 GMT)!!"
I'll wait until it goes back to 0000000000 til I celebrate.
I rate this a 000000000 on the geek scale.
Don't think Prince would know about Unix time, right?
Time to party like it's 1111111110!
Does Mr. Taco get $.15 a click-through on that site or something? sheesh
** "It's not my job to stand between the people talking to me, and the ones listening to me." -- Pego the Jerk
I, for one, welcome our new binary timestamp overlords.
Be sure to celebrate soon! If you skip this one and wait for the next 1, you'll be dead . . .
What.
OK, I know it's cool (and tonight), but how bored do you have to be to figure this out? (Then again, I had a Star Wars II countdown timer running for a while on my desktop...)
antipaucity
don't forget people you can see the following amazing sights on your home digital clock without modifications !!
11:11:11
01:01:01
00:00:00
12:34:56
please feel free to add your own
Quickly, set the Wayback machine for 11010101010!
If firefighters fight fire, and crimefighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight? - George Carlin
Wow! Dumbest Slashdot story ever!
Candlemakers report unseasonally high profits this quarter thanks to a very unusual birthday...
~Someday, I hope to be an aspiring author.
Wait, what the fuck is so special about 11:11:11?
It's my birthday in Rubik's Daylight MalCODE!
Just wait, Slashdot will be announcing the Google Cafeteria lunch menu in about an hour.
//Works on Windows anyway, dunno about *nix
#include
#include
void main(void)
{
long int datetimeint = 0;
datetimeint = time(NULL);
cout"Time is "datetimeintendl;
}
Yeah, this scares me.... has anyone actually looked into the Y2.038205K crisis?
Unich uses Unix time!!!!
__________ Leave me alone I'm compiling a RPG II program on my S/36...Thanks to metamucil I'm a Regular Meta Moderator
if I'm going to need a party hat.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
I had just learnt about Unix time shortly after 100000000 had occured. Seemed a rather shame to miss it. I won't be missing this though! 2000000000 is a rather long time to wait to reach another milestone.
1) Bored Unix programmer visits the Unix time conversion website and enters in "1111111111" for shits and giggles.
2) Bored Unix programmer sees that this is equivalent to just a little while from now.
3) Bored Unix programmer tosses around a few more numbers and submits the story to Slashdot.
4) Story becomes Slashdot front-page news.
The coolest voice ever.
since we brought this up, it might be interesting for everyone to read and be aware of the year 2038 bug.
(by that time, we will all have at least 64-bit systems, but still a cause for concern, read the link)
Marge, get me your address book, 4 beers, and my conversation hat.
Or should I wear a pixelated hash vest instead?
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
Is your unix system prepared for the 2^31 system bugs? If you are unsure, download our special program that will tell you if you need to hire some out-of-work Cobol programmer to update your Unix time clock.
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
Oh well, since I am at GMT - 6, I guess that means it will be Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:58:31 CST for me. I'll have to set my alarm clock.
Insert Generic Sig Here:
Returns #NAN
Heck, she KNOWS this system!
Thank you, I'll be eating all leeks.
Too bad it'll never make it to 2222222222. :-)
Looks like the next big day will be @ 1234567890 which happens to be: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 GMT
Guess we better celebrate this cause we'll have to wait quite awhile for the party!
Since this is /. shouldn't the title be something closer to:
date +%s Turning 1111111111!!!!lllloneoneonebbq?
displays 00:00:00
send it back!
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Let's party until it's 1111111111.
I can't seem to see Prince sing this...
So is this true on all Unix-like systems? I just checked the OS X box i'm using at school, it is currently 1111084982 as I type this.
And do we get to sacrifice a virgin when the time comes? Or would sacrificing a non-virgin make more sense in this crowd? : )
Tell me when it's 01111111111111111111111111111111 BINARY cuz that's when all hell's gonna break loose. All the code that uses a signed it to hold the time will enter a time warp the likes of which will not be seen again unitl - wait! we'll be stuck in an infinite loop! AAAAAAUUGH!!
Slashdot's name? When my compiler sees
Geeks are "fake freaks": freaks by choice, not by nature. Now we've got a horde of Slashdotters talking about how this timestamp story is interesting only if you're really "bored", or have "too much time ;) on your hands". Of course this story is interesting to nerds, who are preternaturally aware that we've got a "Y2K38" event coming up, when all the 32bit timestamps roll over to another epoch. But all these high-numbered posers, whining about how irrelevant or how hard it is to to understand this timeframe, are fake nerds. What is the word for that?
--
make install -not war
1111122222 is Fri, 18 Mar 2005 05:03:42 GMT
1111112345 is Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:19:05 GMT
and the next day:
1111199999 is Sat, 19 Mar 2005 02:39:59 GMT
These sorts of birthdays are pretty common. People have brain hardware that quickly recognizes patterns, even if the patterns don't mean anything significant.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
env LANG=C date -r 1111111111
Thu Mar 17 20:58:31 EST 2005
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Well, 2222222222 is Sat, 02 Jun 2040 03:57:02 GMT
I hereby nominate this as the ugliest headline and submission on Slashdot ever. And that's not even getting into the bizarre grammar of the submitter.
Finally a holiday for the rest of us!
Wear your propeller beanie and a t-shirt that says "Kiss Me I use Unix".
B... b... but what's that got to do with iPods?
Shut up.
It is the moment we completely run out of news to post to /.
Remember to practice safe sex on St. Patrick's Day and wear a Lepricondom.
Actually, the Prince song is about the base 10 digit rollover, when 1999 ends and 2000 begins. So in the proper binary analogy, 10000000000 will be when party's over oops out of time, so we should party like its 1111111111.
I hereby lay claim to at least 00000100 of fdrake76's geek points, preferably in the form of Funny or Informative.
...it's 0x423a35c7, which isn't particularily meaningful.
Wake me up when it's 0x42424242 or something, okay?
Yaz.
This is the date Slashdot jumps the shark, right?
It'll clash with the tinfoil.
I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent. - Q
date +%s Turning REAL OLD LOL!!1!1111111111!!!!!1!!!
Stuff that matters? No.
1/2
... such a blatant waste of server space.
Can't wait for lucky 7777777777777! I just have to wait till Sat, 19 Dec 248437 03:09:37 GMT
1) Bored websurfer heads over to slashdot.
2) Bored websurfer notices another lame story on the frontpage.
3) Bored websurfer posts uninsightful comment about how lame story submissions are produced.
4) Bored websurfer gets modded up as +1 Insightful.
5) Meta-reply gets modded up as +1 Funny or -1 Presumptious
$8.95/mo web hosting
Sheesh, when I pointed out the 900.000.000 on usenet nobody wanted to hear it.
Soups
;-)
* Sweet Potato Jalapeno Bisque with corn
* Creamy Cauliflower Parmesan
Salads
* Warm Southern Chicken Salad tossed in a spicy buttermilk dressing with toasted pecans, corn, green onions and tomatoes
* Tortellini Primavera salad organic tortellini mixed with organic zucchini, yellow squash, tomato sweet peas, pesto vinaigrette
* Organic mixed greens
Entrees
* Grilled Petite New York Sirloins seasoned with Creole spices served with a Crescent City steak sauce and crispy organic onion rings
* Organic Tofu Mushroom Ragout domestic and wild mushrooms, vegetable stock, leeks and tomatoes
Sides
* Roasted Organic Red Potatoes seasoned with New Mexico Chile powder
* Steamed Organic Bluelake green beans
Desserts
* Baileys Irish Cream Cheesecake
* Vegan Chocolate Mousse
* Fresh Fruit
sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
I'm no Unix time expert, but I was wondering what happens in 2038? It's really not that far away now. Are there any sites that document what happens to older systems? Is there some simple solution that I'm unaware of, or is this going to be another Y2K?
I ask because once I get my time machine going (which runs on Unix), I want to be able to go farther into the future than 2038. I'm serious... Seriously.
Mark A. McBride -- OmniNerd.com
Hell, by 2038, my wrist watch will have 16 1024-bit cores (SIMD-GPR fusion) and around 32 TiB of RAM, not to mention an iontrap quantum coprocessor for Shor's quantum search algorithm and Grover's factorization algorithm, if it's not declared illegal tech.
Because it's ALL ON BABY!!!
Get your Unix fortune now!
http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF032ADReset.jpg
6:66
...might live to see Sun, 21 Apr 2069 00:55:37 GMT or 3133731337
or we could call them farkers cus those people are all tools.
Sounds like it will be a nice Friday the 13th when this one hits. Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 GMT is when it will be 1234567890.
'Noiropac'
2^31 is near!
> initsix writes...
And the top-geek award goes to....
Must-not-watch TV!
You guys should probably get out more. That's just a thought.
My binary clock pWnz you. I get more fun times, like 12:44:21
Did you know that "FTW" ("for the win") is a direct translation of "Sieg Heil"?
omfg LOL roflz!!!!!!!!1111111111
I caught the Mountain Wumpus! He gave me his treasure chest ($100) to let him go free again.
Hehehe, I'de be happy if I didn't have to re-write stuff every 5 years to change with the times. Anyone who thinks their software is going to last 8000 years is a bit overconfident.
(If at first you don't succeed, do it different next time!)
WOW!!!1111111111
Too bad it's not 2222222222. We could call it the attack of the terrible 2's! That would better than playing Uno.
So, will the dupe be posted before or after 1111111111?
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
To bad it's not prime, it would be considered "Prime Time"
Then 111111111 must be onety-one-one-one-one-one-one-one-oneth ...
Happy Onety-one-one-one-one-one-one-one-oneth !!!
FLR
Ok smart guy....
'1111111111' is already in base 10.
Since when have you seen a 10-digit base-2 number???
I'm supposed to be working right now.
You have to catch the virgin first. Sadly, this should prove very difficult for those reading this article.
I would say a mirror would do the job. Failing that, the guy in the next cube. Next basement. Next dorm room. Endles possibilities here.
Poor old 'expr $(date +%s) "+" 1' - everyone always forgets HIS birthdays.
perl -e 'foreach(values %SIG){$_="IGNORE";}while(){}'
So, this is a bug in that website. I don't get it. Is it supposed to be funny?
Yes, it has been pretty dull around here after all the party lovers left the Last Odd Day for more than a millenium celebration that occurred here more than 5 years ago.
So is there a special geek catalog where you can select gifts for those special anniversaries in your life, such as living to 1 Saturnian orbital period, living the half-life of some radioisotope, or some other time marker that would not seem provincial to extra-terrestrials (earth_orbits%10 only means a lot to us humans).
"Provided by the management for your protection."
If 1111111111 is on Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:58:31 GMT, when is 0000000000?
Along those same lines, we had pie at work on Monday at 1:59:26.
I had the apple crumble, it was tasty.
until Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 GMT
First january 2001 at 01:01 EET ... man was I drunk.
Way bigger than some y2k.
'Once scientists, even the dim-witted social scientists, get muzzled, the Western Civilization is finished.' - oldhack
It looks like someone found a format string exploit in posting stories to Slashdot! A few more "%s" and maybe we could have gotten a memory dump of a better headline! That, or UUencoded pr0n!
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DeMe!!!
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I remember when I turned 1111111111. It's depressing. Expect date to mope around for a few months feeling trapped in a boring job and wondering, "Where did my life go?"
Are you...Are you some kind of genius?
No, ma'am, I'm just a regular Slashdot reader.
Tell me when it's 1337111111 every AOL user ever well know the time of the 1337 (_-33| has come!
It was a tradeoff. 2038 is far ahead still! A lot could happen before it that makes another counter overflow the least of our worries.
'Once scientists, even the dim-witted social scientists, get muzzled, the Western Civilization is finished.' - oldhack
"Posers" is the word you're looking for, though why anyone would want to be a poser nerd is beyond me. Generally nerds try to be posers of something else, so it ends up being like mockingbird syndrome, where the people (group 1) faking the people (group 2) are faking what yet a third group is, and so group 1 ends up actually being in group 3.
stuff |
ntpdate ntps1-0.cs.tu-berlin.de
(Germany always seems to work best for me for some reason)
Account for your GMT offset and THEN watch the numbers turn.
Otherwise, you won't feel that disturbance in the force as 1000s of geeks go "Ahhhh"
If you felt that force 4 minutes before the turnover, it's just all those Astronomers going "Ahhhhh" because they converted to Sidereal Time.
1 billion, eleventy-one million, eleventy-one thousand, eleventy-one seconds is too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits. I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
But, I wanted socialized health insurance!
people with way too much free time on their hands
;)
-- quoth the Slashdot poster.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Who let the virgin post an article!?!? Somebody take away his sticky keyboard.
P.S. - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.
I'll be turning 55 that day. Whats so cool about 2^31?
- what is the definition of simultanagnosia?! I've been meaning to look it up!
Star Wars Ep II??
I didn't know anyone actually saw it... let alone willingly.
WTPOUAWYHTTOTWPA
What's the point of using acronyms when you have to type out the whole phrase anyways?
D'uh.
It's DECIMAL! Holy, I'd have at least expected the slashdot crowd to celebrate Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:37:03 GMT !
This would at least equal binary 11111111111111111111111111111.
or (slightly more boring) 0x3FFFFFFF.
I'm sure we all want to be watching , preferably on a big projector, when this happens.
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
> Unix time is supposed reach 1111111111
Trust me mate, it will! no supposition that is!
Whatever makes 1111111111 interesting is probably the same thing that makes people think that the series of random bits 111111 is less random than 101001 or 011001 etc.
We already missed it ticking over to 2^30 last January (Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:37:04 GMT to be precise). I find that more interesting because it's the "halfway to doom" point. And because binary is geekier than decimal. 8-)
In the future, all spacecraft will be made of cheese.
Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:22:17 GMT
That was much cooler however.
-- Thou hast strayed far from the path of the Avatar.
Just wait, Slashdot will be announcing the Google Cafeteria lunch menu in about an hour.
No. Probably just a dupe of yesterday's menu.
Today is beer day
Tomorrow is 1's day
and Saturday is Mojoday.
Maybe we can invite those 1 million zombies to the shindig. Yow!
[-- Trust the Monkey --]
To be insanely picky, and drive an otherwise good attempt at a joke right into the ground, if you properly follow the order of operations, your equation doesn't balance:
RHS = 0
LHS = 4 x 3 - 2 + a / 5 x 3 - c x 7
= C - 2 + 2 x 3 - 54
= C - 2 + 6 - 54
= -44 (or 0xFFFFFFBC)
LHS != RHS
As punishment, tonights homework is to re-express your expression in RPN :).
Yaz.
I propose we call it the Y2Ki-10 crisis.
I guess today is a passable day to die.
It'll be cooler when the number of seconds (which will contain all 1's), converted to decimal matches that second's year. Can this even happen??
Monitor bandwidth usage on IIS6 in real-time: http://www.waetech.com/services/iisbm/
Just wait, Slashdot will be announcing the Google Cafeteria lunch menu in about an hour.
Yeah, then we'll hear about it on Yahoo in two hours.
Inject
Sat, 16 Feb 1991 01:11:06 UTC, 32 bit Unix Mark of the Beast time (666666666 seconds from epoch) Any slashdotters or siblings born about that time now has an excuse for misbehaving. If it were my birthtime I'd say that's why I run FreeBSD and love the mascot 8D
The question is, will you be able to tell your kids where you were when it ticked over to 1111111111! That's the sign of a true geek.
Sorry, not enough geek.
Now 0x42424242 is on Thursday, March 24, 2005 04:29:54 UTC, and depending on your timezone, that is around the beginning of Good Friday. 42 as you know represents the meaning of Life, etc., which is interesting given it occurs around Easter.
In Base2, it is 1000010010000100100001001000010,
which looks better than 1000010001110100011010111000111 or 0x423A35C7.
BTW. 42 has always been the correct answer.
Ostracized from the nerds.
Wow! that's gotta be pretty low on the totem pole.
And all for not having an appreciation of Unix.
Luckily, there is the most wise Doc Ruby to see who's who.
Freaks by choice. So credibility is called into question because some chose to study arcane knowledge instead of being forced into it by a lack of social grace/expectations of being bright?
You've said some bonehead things in the past, but this certainly takes the prize.
The term you are looking for is pseudo-intellectual. The term that follows is stagnation.
No, that's okay, you can keep it.
You are now irrelevant.
> I was wondering what happens in 2038?
In 2038, I will be 64 years old. I design and write all of my software explictly so that it will break (badly) in 2038. I hope all of my peers do so as well. Everybody who works for me does.
The plan is, about 2033, people will start going insane over the Y2038 problem. I will be able to leverage my experience as a Senior UNIX Systems Programmer with a core strength in C to grab all kinds of consulting money. Then, in 2037, I'll do some hard-code hacking (i.e. enter deep hack mode for about 6 months) for some really high-end clients (whoever has the most cash on hand), and throw a bunch of money in the bank.
This is really great, because I don't have a retirement plan, and I'm sure the old age pension will be bust by the time I'm 65. So, after having watched a bunch of COBOL/CICS/etc guys get rich in the late 90s, I want to do the same thing in my early sixties. The best part is, I watched the Y2K crap roll out, and I know how to play the management types that get stuck with clock problems... so I can suck them into weeks and weeks of meetings at huge consulting rates. Maybe I'll be able to bill $1000/hr by then!
Most programmers older than I will be long gone. Most programmers younger thank I won't be able to understand the problem, due to brain infestations of the of the Microsoft and Java variety.
There will be few old-sk00l UNIX hats running around. I will be one of them. Hopefully, by then, I will be able to grow a grey beard, so I can really look the part. My skills will be in supreme demand. I'll get rich off the problems I helped to create, and retire in comfort.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
Some quick calculations show that the 1111111111 this is referring to is DECIMAL, not binary. The real party should have been the halfway point from 0 to 2^31, which would have been 13:37:04 on 10 Jan 2004.
"O'Connor, smash the window." "Why me, Bigboote?" "It might be boobie-trapped!" "Oh!"<smash> -Buckaroo Banzai
How about two: Doc Ruby.
Sorry, couldn't resist. But I know what you mean - the distinction I always made is that nerds are the people who like esoteria for the sake thereof; dorks are people who wish they were as smart as the nerds they hang around, being otherwise ostracized elsewhere. Dorks take up the more banal nerd pastimes, not being able to take up proper nerdly pursuits. Example: Nerds play with electronics, develop explosives, devise methods for factoring primes, etc. Not being able to do any of that, dorks fixate on Star Wars.
Saw it all the time in high school, college, etc. Nothing worse than a "Nerd groupie."
You guys remember what happened a couple of days after the clock rolled past 1000000000, right?
That was a fine time for programs to break, as lexical vs. numerical sort ignorance was attributed to terrorism.
watch -n 1 'echo "The time is near: `date +%s`"'
This is nice to have running at the moment of truth to create the maximum dramatic effect.
*** "Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden". -- Rosa Luxemburg ***
I remeber on alt.hackers (note: This article never made it to google's news archive) someone making a big deal of UNIX time hitting 800000000.
...are belong to us
We always saw 12:08 in the advertisements of old TI digital watches, and decided it was the 12-hour format time that displayed the maximum number of valid LED segments.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
The next time this will happen (all 1's) will be Sun, Feb 5th 2322. Hopefully the Unix timestamp will be obsolete by then.
Dorks are nerds with friends. Real nerds don't have friends - they're antisocial.
--
make install -not war
Run this:
while true ; do date=`date +%s` ; left=$((1111111111-date)) ; if [ $left == 0 ] ; then echo HAPPY NEW MOST SIGNIFICANT DECIMAL DIGIT ; break ; fi ; echo $left ; sleep 1 ; done
And so will our time values.
I guess that'd make me 1111111111 seconds old, oh, right about... now.
(Well, not quite, really, it would've been 5:03:31 AM this morning for me, CST.)
ProofReading Markup Language - and yes, I find typos.
i think 04:20:00 is a very special time too.
One time I had a horrible hangover, and for some reason my clock got flipped upside down.. don't ask. Anyway, I woke up my clock saying 11:34. But I still think I was in hell.
wouldn't you be playing tag with, you know, William McKinley or something? if 1970 +2^31 is 2038, 1970 -2^31 is 1901 sometime. Then you invest in any stock you can find!
And when you come back to today, you'll find all your stocks got bankrupted in the great depression. damn!
"Nobody writes jokes in base 13." - Douglas Adams
Reminds me of that Johnny Bravo cartoon, where Johnny wakes Chronos the Bear, Master of All Time, has a few seconds to plead for his life, and after the timer runs out, points behind the bear: "But this says I have 12 Minutes left!".
And while Chronos looks around and sees his blinking VCR clock, explaining "Thats the VCR you idiot! Not even Chronos, Master of All Time [thunderclap], knows how to set these!", Johnny took the opportunity to run.
Boy was this funny. It was like... so funny, because I had this glass of milk, you know, and like... umm... no, actually it was gross...
Nevermind...
...is the reason for not changing this walue to 64-bit signed integer asap ???
break out your tinfoil hats, not your party hats
Pictochat Art!!!
According to the same website 1234567890 will be on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 GMT. Friday the 13th eh?
Hell - can't we just put the hard drive in reverse and roll it back a bit? It worked for Ferris Buehler didn't it?
*natch
and I want them back!
I am the maverick of Slashdot
Is this the same as 1111111110.999999999...?
Proud member of the American Non Sequitur Society. We might not make much sense, but boy do we love pizza!
Am I the only one who figured this out before it was on /., then came to /. to see if they'd be running the story?
You *do* have to be geeky, but *don't* need loads of spare time at all. Python:
#!/bin/bash
while [ $(date +%s) != 1111111111 ]
do
echo "Not Yet!"
done
echo "Unix Time"
date +%s
echo "on `date`"
echo "so we captured the history!"
Senthil
33:33:33
or better (more 31337 one):
16:32:64
How very 10100111001.
- Look, I came from the future - 2038!
- What are you, seen too much Terminator?
- No no, you don't understand. They sent me back to warn you people about the Y2038 bug and make you fix it NOW!
- Aren't we all supposed to be using 64 bit computers by then.
- No, well see that's the problem - we aren't. They made so much heat that the ice cap started melting so we had to go back to 32-bit.
- Now come on, how could you have managed to invent a time machine with 32-bit computers?!
- Well Google actually did, with a Lenovo PC farm.
Tyranny isn't the worst enemy of a democracy. Cynicism is.
00:00:00 just marks the start of the detonation scheme. There is a slight lag that varies according to type of wiring and trigger.
I don't know you, but if I have to sustain a blast that decays with a quadratic formula, I still would prefer to get roasted at distance+n, where n equals the distance travelled by my ass on fire.
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
I celebrate when my clock reads 4:20
I would post my Java version of this, but the Indians keep telling me that their best practice books say my version is wrong.
To keep track of useless moments like this...
kstart --keepabove xdaliclock -countdown 1111111111 -fullscreen -transparent -cycle &
I hate LISP. :)
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Unix time is supposed reach 1111111111 on...
Meaning if the world ends before then, we're ok?
Non committal about when it really will happen, eh...
until [ 6 -eq 9 ]; do echo $(date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s"); sleep 1; done
I used to go get a coffee at this time at work. Seemed like an appropriate time for a break. Nowadays I just drink my java anytime a day.
The more you know, the less you need. [Admin added: from me.]
For the curious:
Thought I'd give y'all a quick hack to allow you to watch it tic over:
./epoch.pl ; sleep 1; done~ /dez$
;-)
little perl hack:
g5:~/dez$ cat epoch.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Time::Local;
print time(), "\n";
now a shell loop to watch it tick each second:
g5:~/dez$ while true; do
1111101942
1111101943
1111101944
^C
g5:
now it's up to you to catch that screen grab
may the --; be with you!
Dez at Blanchfield.COM.AU
http://www.websearch.com.au/
is on the 2nd June 2040 @ 03:57:02 so long wait till the next one :P
We're actually partying on #1111111111 on irc.indymedia.org. Come join us! Also, there's a counter set up here: http://stevo32.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/countdown.cgi Thanks, Stephen Clement
s.clementmonkey@sympatico.ca, remove the 'monkey'.
We're actually partying on #1111111111 on irc.indymedia.org. Come join us!
Also, there's a counter set up here:
http://stevo32.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/countdown.cgi
Thanks,
Stephen Clement
s.clementmonkey@sympatico.ca, remove the 'monkey'.
Since it more closely resembles my Slashdot UID :).
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
Happy 0x03FF day.
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
1111111111
Happy 1111111111... now!
it's 1111111111 right now!
[bloom@cat-in-the-hat ~]$ for x in $(seq 1 87); do
> echo $(( (1111111111 - $( date +%s)) ))
> sleep 1
> done
% date +%s
1111111111
Well -- that was an exciting second. Now I have to wait 123456779 seconds.
...here's a play-by-play recap.
Yes, we just passed it. Move along, nothing to see here.
"1111122222" == "Fri, 18 Mar 2005 05:03:42 GMT" !!!!!
Personally, I can't wait for this one:
"1234567890" == "Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 GMT"
% TZ=GMT perl -le 'print scalar localtime 2**31-1'
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
% TZ=GMT perl -le 'print scalar localtime 2**31'
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901
Tue Jan 19 03:14:08 2038 GMT isn't representable by a 32-bit signed time_t like many of us have now.
Various ramblings
that.... 31st December 3112 is the last date we will hv patterns like.....
31/12/3112
cool....
~~bada bing, bada bang, bada bong and voila~~
I actually noticed this at work today... when i was working on a little scheduler and testing it... if you do anything with unix times on a regular basis you'd have probably seen it coming from a week away! :P
I can count to 1023 on my hands. Ask me about #132.
A second to remember.
david@ubuntu:~ $ date +%s
1111121778
david@ubuntu:~ $
I missed it
Don't you get excited when your car rolls over to 100000 miles? It's somthing simple and nice -- and well worth taking pleasure in.
I'm still waiting for mine to roll over but it never seems to get there. You see, my odometer has been slowly failing since about 96000 miles. The more I drive, the more slowly (actually infrequently) it records the miles. At this point, I begin to doubt if it will ever reach 100,000.
perl -e 'while (1) { print `date +%s`; sleep 1; }'
All the fun of new years, except, well, it's way fuckin' nerdier.
Perhaps the answer to the problem of teenagers dropping bricks from motorway and railway bridges is to sue Tetris.
Here http://asterisk.espia-net.net/unitixtimeones/ones. avi you will find that I recorded it for my sons, and for me, since I was @sleep.
I was there.
thats right unix leet speak !!!!!!!!!!!
Is that Big or Little Indians? Also, would that Java version be available in network byte order?
I just want to warn 64-bit clock system users about the problem they will have on GMT 15:30:08, Sunday, December 4, 292,277,026,596 C.E when their clocks will go back to GMT 00:00:00, Thursday, January 1, 1970 C.E what it's about going back too much time...
So the systems will collapse, there will be a big chaos in all the galaxy and most of the systems will become like old IBM's SCAMP or Intel's 4004.
I've warned you... the end is coming!!!
Isn't it possible to make the GCC treat short as 32-bit, int and long as 64-bit and long long as, say, 128-bit numbers, and produce code that handles that even on the 32-bit (or the even older 16-bit) machines still hanging around (I can see many problems with multithreaded code that's not properly synchronized, but, alas, `c'est la vie`)? That could make many problems go away in a poof of compiler logic.
s/^I /If /
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Administrators of WebSphere v5.0.x products, take note: some seem to choke on this date rollover.
Yesterday our Websphere Portal server (v5.0.2), on both development and production systems, started refusing to install, update or delete portlets, and the serverStatus.sh command couldn't find any server instances running, even though they clearly were.
Setting the date back to, say, March 1, instantly "fixed" these problems. Obviously this is only a workaround. (yes, the problems re-appeared when the clock was set back to March 18.)
It's only because of this Slashdot post that I even thought to check the date. Who would've guessed one of IBM's enterprise products would have the analogue of the Y2K bug in it...