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February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890
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."
even though this is the wrong forum, i wouldn't know where else to put the put the request, so here goes:
time measurements usually work from sometime in the 1970s, or maybe back to the 1800s, and peter out in the 2000s, or perhaps go to something like the year 9999
completely dismissed in all of these schemes is historical time, over which there is valid reason to take measurements and establish dates
why not, instead of going to some absurd future date in milliseconds, pinpoint the start date in the distant past? say around the time the pyramids were built. you could still go to some absurd future date in milliseconds
of course, then there is the issue of exactness. however, even without all of the changes in time measurements over history, we ever could firmly establish certain dates and times
no one is promising that the precise millisecond king canute was born or zheng he left port can be pinpointed
but it would be very useful for genealogists, or climate researchers, as well as just plain history software
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I don't know!
WAARRRGGHHHH!
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