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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!
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!
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Wow! Dumbest Slashdot story ever!
Candlemakers report unseasonally high profits this quarter thanks to a very unusual birthday...
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Just wait, Slashdot will be announcing the Google Cafeteria lunch menu in about an hour.
Yeah, this scares me.... has anyone actually looked into the Y2.038205K crisis?
Unich uses Unix time!!!!
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if I'm going to need a party hat.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
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.
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:
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!
displays 00:00:00
send it back!
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
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? : )
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?
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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".
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.
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
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
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Salads
* Warm Southern Chicken Salad tossed in a spicy buttermilk dressing with toasted pecans, corn, green onions and tomatoes
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* 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
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Sides
* Roasted Organic Red Potatoes seasoned with New Mexico Chile powder
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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
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'
Nietzsche is dead.
Oh crap, an article about a pattern of all ones in a DECIMAL number? That's just too dumb for words. I am humbled.
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.
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.
So is Paul
What?
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.
-- Thou hast strayed far from the path of the Avatar.
Good thing we still have The King among us...
Did Netcraft confirm that?
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.
> 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()?
Absolute-precision decimal math. No crufty repeating-binary rounding errors. Go ahead, try to store 1/10 as an absolute-precision binary number. Can't be done, because it's a repeating binary: 0001100110011100110011....
Fixed-point BCD stores it precisely. 0000000000010000
BCD is pretty popular where precision fixed-point decimal math is important...like finance. A few hundredths of a penny here, a few hundredths of a penny there....multiply times about a billion transactions a day....yeah, BCD makes more sense, except in the pure geek sense.
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Nietcraft did.
#!/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
- 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.
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'.
while true ; do perl -le'print 1111111111 - time' ; sleep 1 ; done
count down
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A second to remember.