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date +%s Turning 1111111111

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everyone-make-balloon-animals dept.

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)!!"

4 of 574 comments (clear)

  1. Next Party by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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!

  2. Re:It gets better ! by EmagGeek · · Score: 5, Informative

    The fibonacci clock always displays 11:23:58 :)

  3. Re:what clock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, in Europe it's
    23:59:59
    00:00:00
    00:00:01

    makes more sense, at least if you're used to it. ;-)

  4. Re:Eh... by KinkifyTheNation · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, 2147483647 is the time of the epoch, not 9999999999.