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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.
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
Candlemakers report unseasonally high profits this quarter thanks to a very unusual birthday...
~Someday, I hope to be an aspiring author.
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?
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.
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!
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? : )
In Europe and actually most parts of the world they do.
(Yes, I know that you were joking)
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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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.
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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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
When a clock displays 00:00:00, run like hell because something is about to blow up real good.
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.
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.
Prince knows a ton about Eunuchs. What did you think 'When Doves Cry' was about?
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()?
People attach meaning to numbers -- perhaps technical people make more of a habbit out of it, but I digress -- what makes 1111111111 interesting? Possibly its aesthetic appeal. It's got nothing to do with randomness. 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 like the number 219. There isn't anything special about it -- It's just happens to be one of my favorite ascii characters. (The solid block one.) I stayed in hotel room 219 just yesterday and felt good about having that room number.
Lot's of people attach meaning to the number 42. There isn't anything wrong with that.
Some people find powers of 2 appealing -- imagine driving route 256 -- how cool would that be?
Gamblers may have some attraction or aversion to the numbers 7 and 13 -- some might get a good feeling seeing hte number 21.
Finding an old girlfriends phone number can be nice -- it let's you remember.
I don't know if you have any numbers that are significant in your life -- But I know I do! I don't think I'd want it any other way.
You have to learn to enjoy those small meaningful things -- or you'll miss the whole point of living -- I don't mean the meaning of life, mind you, but the meaning in life.
Required reading for internet skeptics
...are belong to us
while true ; do perl -le'print 1111111111 - time' ; sleep 1 ; done
count down
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