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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. Geeks in Time by A+Dafa+Disciple · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What is it with geeks and time?

    It always surprises me when this sort of "news" makes the front page.

    I mean, I'm a geek, but even I think this is lame.

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