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February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890

Posted by timothy on from the less-often-than-a-stopped-clock-is-right dept.

mikesd81 writes "Over at Linux Magazine Online, Jon maddog Hall writes that on Friday the 13th, 2009 at 11:31:30pm UTC UNIX time will reach 1,234,567,890. This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST. Matias Palomec has a perl script you an use to see what time that will be for you: perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";' Now, while this is not the UNIX epoch, Alan Cox does assure us that Linux is now working on 64-bit time, and the UNIX epoch 'roll-over' would happen about the time that the sun burnt out."

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  1. Leap Seconds? by John+Hasler · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that with or without leap seconds?

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    1. Re:Leap Seconds? by dotancohen · · Score: 5, Funny

      On Friday the 13th, every second is a leap second. BOO!

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    2. Re:Leap Seconds? by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

      What do you mean? An African or European leap second?

    3. Re:Leap Seconds? by yezu · · Score: 2, Funny

      In Soviet Russia the seconds leap You!

    4. Re:Leap Seconds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      NOBODY expects the Monty Python quotes!

  2. It's also a notable day because... by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...it's my birthday. I've been telling people for years that my birthday is at 1234567890.

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    1. Re:It's also a notable day because... by jellomizer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Then they look at you like you are an idiot and never talk to you again. enjoy you birthday alone.

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    2. Re:It's also a notable day because... by kohaku · · Score: 5, Funny

      WRONG. I'll bet his birthday party is going to be EPOCH.

    3. Re:It's also a notable day because... by rwwyatt · · Score: 2, Funny

      And this is different from the normal slashdotter's day how? Most slashdotter's would be happy to enjoy only their birthday alone.

    4. Re:It's also a notable day because... by beav007 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't forget to party like it's 915148769

    5. Re:It's also a notable day because... by ahankinson · · Score: 4, Funny

      Party like it's 7pm on Dec. 31, 1998? Geez... at least wait until 915166800

  3. Actually, the date... by dotancohen · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...that I really feel I missed:

    $ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(8675309),"\n";'
    Sat Apr 11 11:48:29 1970

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  4. What kind of stupid time is that? by John.P.Jones · · Score: 4, Funny

    So the time is 123456789? That's the stupidest time I've ever heard in my life... It sounds like something an idiot would have on his luggage.

    1. Re:What kind of stupid time is that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hey! That's my luggage combination!

    2. Re:What kind of stupid time is that? by DiegoBravo · · Score: 2, Funny

      > and the quality of pop music spiraling downward. Truly a nadir in modern history.

      I'd call that an inflection point. The nadir is TODAY.

  5. Re:so what? by Bozzio · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, you must have a hard time finding joy in anything.

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  6. Re:Perl script is unnecessary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Leave it to a Slashdot story to make my terminal window look like this:

    dave@tomservo:~$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'
    Fri Feb 13 18:31:30 2009
    dave@tomservo:~$ perl -e 'print ~~ localtime(1234567890),"\n"'
    Fri Feb 13 18:31:30 2009
    dave@tomservo:~$ perl -e 'print localtime(1234567890) ."\n";'
    Fri Feb 13 18:31:30 2009
    dave@tomservo:~$ `watch date +"%s"`

    dave@tomservo:~$ perl -le 'print ~~localtime 1234567890'
    Fri Feb 13 18:31:30 2009
    dave@tomservo:~$ date -d @1234567890
    Fri Feb 13 18:31:30 EST 2009
    dave@tomservo:~$

    I've wasted my life.

  7. Re:so what? by arogier · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just wait till Unix time reaches 3141592654 (sorry I rounded up the last digit on the holy number, if its that bad you can celebrate a second earlier) If you think people get crazy about pi day wait till you mix pi and unix.

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  8. Re:Must be a slow news day.. by FooAtWFU · · Score: 5, Funny

    The OS itself may live past the 2038 32-bit time_t rollover, but the same cannot be said about all mission-critical apps that may be running on top of the Linux OS.

    Or any OS, for that matter.

    And now a bit of topical humor so this post isn't purely an exercise in pointing out the obvious: "Every day is a long day, because 86400 seconds won't fit in a short."

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  9. Friday the 13th eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    1234567890 + 13 = ?????

    This could easily be numberwang. Fetch my broom.

  10. Y2^40K by DRJlaw · · Score: 5, Funny

    Alan Cox does assure us that Linux is now working on 64-bit time, and the UNIX epoch 'roll-over' would happen about the time that the sun burnt out."

    This is just the sort of short-sighted thinking that lead to our recent Y2K hysteria, except this time our poor beleaguered descendents will be in the middle of an exodus from the solar system when all their legacy systems throw simultaneous exceptions. This will of course cause their engine and guidance systems to fail, so that the last dying gasps of humanity will consist of:

    [Captain]Captain's log, stardate 1704.4. Ship out of control, spiraling down towards Sol; we have 19 minutes of life left, without engine power or helm control.
    [Engineer interrupting] I'll be damned. The clocks on every piece of technology in existence have failed because that damned Brit used a 64 bit counter...
    [Captain]COOOOOOOOOOOOOX!!!"

    1. Re:Y2^40K by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I like that, in your fiction, mankind's last breath is used to scream "Cocks". "Oh cock" is also quite a british expression :)

    2. Re:Y2^40K by Simetrical · · Score: 2, Funny

      Alan Cox does assure us that Linux is now working on 64-bit time, and the UNIX epoch 'roll-over' would happen about the time that the sun burnt out."

      This is just the sort of short-sighted thinking that lead to our recent Y2K hysteria, except this time our poor beleaguered descendents will be in the middle of an exodus from the solar system when all their legacy systems throw simultaneous exceptions. This will of course cause their engine and guidance systems to fail, so that the last dying gasps of humanity will consist of:

      [Captain]Captain's log, stardate 1704.4. Ship out of control, spiraling down towards Sol; we have 19 minutes of life left, without engine power or helm control. [Engineer interrupting] I'll be damned. The clocks on every piece of technology in existence have failed because that damned Brit used a 64 bit counter... [Captain]COOOOOOOOOOOOOX!!!"

      If only they had followed RFC2550, that would never have happened!

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  11. UNIX epoch 'roll-over' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    >UNIX epoch 'roll-over' would happen about the time that the sun burnt out."

    Yes, that will be a nice little surprise for whatever cyborg/singularity we've evolved into as they try to flee to a habitable star system in their linux controlled vessels.

    Linux will doom us all.
    BG

    1. Re:UNIX epoch 'roll-over' by Voyager529 · · Score: 2, Funny

      This will all be settled by the Great Windo-Linux War of 2089. Or so my future self told me, during his last visit.

      ...So 2089 will be the year of the Linux desktop?

  12. Re:so what? by techno-vampire · · Score: 5, Funny
    If you think people get crazy about pi day wait till you mix pi and unix.

    However, considering that OSX is based on BSD, you can also get Apple pi.

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  13. dammit! by tbj61898 · · Score: 4, Funny

    it's my password... now everyone know it, thanks SLASHDOT! :-)

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  14. S^64 and Solar burnout by sprior · · Score: 4, Funny

    Alan Cox does assure us that Linux is now working on 64-bit time, and the UNIX epoch 'roll-over' would happen about the time that the sun burnt out."

    So great, we're going to be dealing with the 64bit time roll over in the dark? What kinda planning is that! Do we have candles?

  15. Re:so what? by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 3, Funny

    1234567890 is some arbitrary decimal string, if you wished to note a notable number, why not one which is 2^N, for something so entirely based within computers, it seems much more sensible to think in binary than some decimal number which happens to look a little pretty

    Why do we have gaydar but not virgindar?

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  16. Re:With by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The french tried it. It failed.

    If any post should be marked redundant...

  17. Re:scalar() unnecessary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thus proving TMTOWTDI. ;)

    Teenage mutant turtle on wild turtle date...? What the hell does I stand for?!

  18. let's see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=TMTOWTDI

  19. Re:why command-line? by Locklin · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are talking about the countdown to a "cool" number in UNIX time, and you don't want to use the command line???

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