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1,234,567,890 Seconds Since Unix Time Began
os2man was one of many readers to let us know that later on today, at 23:31:30 UTC (30 seconds after this story went live), the number of seconds since January 1st 1970 will be exactly 1234567890. January 1st, 1970 marks the start of the clock for the Unix operating system and many other operating systems. Here is a list of celebrations of the moment around the world.
first post of newepoch!
Happy 1234567890, everyone!
Congratulations!? :D
Let's get drunk and delete production data!
dp@tui:~$ perl -e 'print time(),"\n";'
1234567890
605413? Yes, it's a prime.
n/t
Happy 1234567890-day!
First I find out today is Friday the 13th and now this. I'm surprised today isn't some cult's doomsday.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Except it won't because unix time doesn't account for leap seconds
I wish to remain anomalous
EPOCH WIN
http://xkcd.com/376/
I've got 15 year old Laphoraig here.
Isn't it a bit late to be posting the list of celebrations?
☠
Happy sequential Unix time day.
I am spending it drinking alone on a Friday night and wishing I had a girlfriend. How are the rest of you guys celebrating?
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
Here's a little screen shot to mark the occasion.
Happy 23:31:30 UTC everyone! (Oddly a 13th Friday!)
I am just really glad that there are some options as far as Operating Systems go, I am writing a paper about FOSS and how we can use it in education and how much money it will save, but most importantly, how fast technology can advance without being hindered by anti-competitive business practices.
To see a few of my Android apps goto: www.hartwired.com
Joss Whedons new series Dollhouse will start airing today. Will be friggin epoch :>
Here's a little screen shot to mark the occasion.
Happy 23:31:30 UTC everyone! (Oddly a 13th Friday!)
(I swear I didn't check the AC box, weird.)
I was hoping the nice Debian people would celebrate it by releasing Lenny. Grumble.
Repeat? http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/2043206
Next party is at Fri Jul 13 12:01:20 2012 (GMT) when UNIX time will hit 0x50000000.
Posting in a legendary discussion.
The binary milestones are more interesting. They might have actual implications.
I wrote a countdown script but then I got confused. Guess I have to wait for the 64-bit one :-(
...well expect for the fanboys..
So I don't get "trolled"
Imagine that many linux machines in a beowulf cluster!
The google logo was changed for a few minutes to celebrate it, did anyone get a screenshot?
> time.pl
1234567889 (Fri Feb 13 23:31:29 2009)
> timepl.
timepl.: Command not found.
> time.pl
1234567893 (Fri Feb 13 23:31:33 2009)
Stupid typo!
123456890 = 2 * 5 * 17 * 751 * 967
Aaargh ! If only it had been prime.
Oh, wait just 1 more second.
1234567891 is prime :-)
Absolute statements are never true
Eh, call me when they decide to make it a national holiday and give me the day off. Bah, humbug!
And just before the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. w00t!
Google got in on the action too.... here's the screen grab.
Google 1234567890
load "$",8,1
Hey I'm helping run a Dr. Who convention this weekend in Los Angeles, we have our own TARDIS. I'll celebrate it as many times as I want!
Why bother
about the number in question, I might have found an explanation. Consider the sum, as n goes from zero to b-1, for some base b, of n*b^(b-n). For the case of b=10, which seems to have a special meaning to some people, the sum results in the celebrated number.
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every time 0 = timestamp % 0; drink! May be a short night.
Doomsday cults are based on weird ambiguous predictions by lost civilizations, medieval seers, or some crazy dude who just knows how to rant in an entertaining manner:
I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands.
And among the lampstands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.
His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.
His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.
He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.
When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid. I am the first and the last, and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore."
Against competition like that, some silly pattern in a computer clock simply doesn't rate!
2009-02-13 23:31:06 UTC - 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC = 1234567890 seconds. 24 seconds later, Unix time was the same number. POSIX compliant Unix time doesn't have leap seconds, but UTC does.
% date -ud @`hextodec 49999999`
Mon Feb 16 16:51:37 UTC 2009
And no, 0x50000000 isn't one second after that.
more like places to avoid.
Congratulations on your 1001001100101100000001011010010 seconds, Unix!
Light a fire for a man and he'll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
google briefly changed their logo the below graphic:
http://www.google.com/logos/unix1234567890.gif
Cool, I was born in the first year of Unix! Seriously, I may be the Unix messiah! I'll start by commanding "We must learn to forgive our fellow Unix people for their transgressions.*"
* except for Darl McBride
I've always wanted to say to Prince (queue Dave Chappelle accent):
1999 called- it wants its party back.
As here.
Linux will be on the desktop in 2033!
I got a screen capture but I almost missed it because I was thinking about the epoch in the scene on my background image. That is Apollo 17, Station 6 at about 91918279.
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Great party guys! I'll see you all 2361 to celebrate 12345678900!
The last Slashdot dupe: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/2043206&from=rss
Hooray!
Get your facts right. Because there wasn't a 0, the new epoch actually began at 1234567891
Some see the vessel as half full; others see it as half-empty; We pour it out on the floor and laugh
I suspect most of the posters in this thread need no excuse to be "celebrating", but rather it is a regular occurrence. Tsk Tsk.
Meanwhile, this "auspicious" has happened on (dum, de dum, dum dum!) a Friday the 13th! Seems suspicious to me, like someone planned it, for nefarious reasons, no doubt.
If I make a "paper boat", that is large enough, from tin foil, will that count?
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Ignignot: Aqua Teens! Come on out and meet your doom. For we are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday! Rabbot: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday... Ignignot: No, one week is enough.
... missed it by 7583 seconds!
1073741823 or 1431655765 seconds would have been a more appropriate celebratory milestone considering it's stored in binary form.
$ date -r 1234567890 Fri Feb 13 17:31:30 CST 2009
"You do not support the root but the root supports you." - Romans 11:18
123
Linked page is in Catalan?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language
Weird.
No sig today...
Now the only thing I have to live for is for it to progress to 0x12:3456:7890 - which is a long time away.
seconds count you!
oh please... get a life people.. seriously.
I am only amused that the world did not end again. I mean, based on past experience.
I think you underestimate just how much I just dont care.
we should eat one billion pies!
Hello,
I think 1234567890, falling on Valentine's Day for everyone between Paris and the Pacific, is now a date inextricably bound up with love. It's a once in a lifetime (once in history?) event and is just right to express the idea of sharing an instant in eternity with someone special.
I made a special valentine card entitled, 1234567890 - Be Mine Forever that you can freely use any day, any year, to express your love for someone who might find the idea charming.
By solar mean time, it does not account for leap seconds between 1970 and today. Can any computer get a concept such as time, correct? And does anyone else care?