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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)!!"

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  1. Re:It gets better ! by dashing_cavalier · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How about: 11:23:58?

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    Meh.
  2. Re:also interesting - 2038 by jerometremblay · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Fear not, there is already a rfc for the Y10K bug (and beyond).

  3. What happens in 2038? by markmcb · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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    Mark A. McBride -- OmniNerd.com
    1. Re:What happens in 2038? by Mike+Buddha · · Score: 2, Interesting

      or is this going to be another Y2K?

      This is going to be another Y2K, in that those who are concerned with the flaw will have worked out the problems years in advance, and the press will have a heyday of Doom-and-Gloom reports telling everyone to stack up on baseball bats with nails in them, football pads, and "juice" for the coming apocalypse brought on by the proud and ignorant computer "experts" we were all trusting.

      When the moment comes and goes without incident, they'll proclaim it a victory for the news agencies which apparently got the word out and forced the computer industry to fix the issue.

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      by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.
  4. Re:It gets better ! by angle_slam · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Muddy Waters has a CD with 12 tracks on it and the total time of the CD is 2096 seconds. When I put it in my CD player, it says: 12 34:56.

  5. Re:It gets better ! by Aranwe+Haldaloke · · Score: 4, Interesting

    01:49:16 (The squares of 0 through 4) 03:14:16 (Pi. Duh) 16:18:03 (The Golden Ratio) 09:02:10 (For fans of Aaron Spelling's productions)

  6. Re:to watch it Happen... by nickgrieve · · Score: 3, Interesting

    while true ; do perl -le'print 1111111111 - time' ; sleep 1 ; done

    count down

    re: while... skinnning cats

  7. ObScreenshot! by tobias.sargeant · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A second to remember.