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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."

6 of 376 comments (clear)

  1. Re:so what? by product+byproduct · · Score: 2, Interesting

    11.23 seconds later UNIX time will reach 10^11/3^4. You can celebrate that instead.

  2. Re:Why perl? by eddy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or if you want the countdown, something like while true; do let a=1234567890-`date +"%s"`; echo $a; sleep 1; done"

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  3. why command-line? by FooAtWFU · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://coolepochcountdown.com/

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  4. Re:scalar() unnecessary by rfuilrez · · Score: 5, Interesting

    TIZZLE:~ ben$ perl -e 'print localtime(1234554321) ."\n";'
    Fri Feb 13 13:45:21 2009

    Apparently a palindrome is one the same day!

  5. For about half the world .... by taniwha · · Score: 3, Interesting

    this of course will be happening on Sat Feb 14th .... at about lunch time here in NZ .... earlier that day (at breakfast) it will be 1234554321

  6. 64-bit time EXCEPT... by jimicus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... for any application that assumes sizeof(time_t) is 32 bits.

    Not that I'd expect that to be the case with any half-decent intelligently written application. But we all know how common applications which are neither half-decent nor intelligently written are...