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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. 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
  3. 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.

  4. 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)

  5. 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