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

    http://coolepochcountdown.com/

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  2. 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!

  3. 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...