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1,234,567,890 Seconds Since Unix Time Began

Posted by kdawson on from the epoch-making dept.

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.

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  1. FIRST by Mogget03 · · Score: 5, Funny

    first post of newepoch!

  2. Woo hoo! by Eternal+Vigilance · · Score: 3, Funny

    Happy 1234567890, everyone!

  3. zomg zomg let's party like it was 1111111111 !1!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    n/t

  4. Can't be good by nizo · · Score: 3, Funny

    First I find out today is Friday the 13th and now this. I'm surprised today isn't some cult's doomsday.

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    1. Re:Can't be good by SIR_Taco · · Score: 5, Funny

      Doomsday?! No way man, we're celebrating with some blue kool-aid! It's the only way to

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  5. Epoch win by VMaN · · Score: 4, Funny

    EPOCH WIN

    http://xkcd.com/376/

  6. Wow by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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    1. Re:Wow by Joe+Jay+Bee · · Score: 4, Funny

      I spend every Friday night like that

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    2. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      I am spending it drinking alone on a Friday night and wishing I had a girlfriend. How are the rest of you guys celebrating?

      I have a girlfriend, you insensitive clod!

    3. Re:Wow by Cerberus7 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm spending it drinking at home with my wife. Pretty much the same.

      Also, thanks to her, I didn't get to actually see the numbers change at coolepochcountdown.com. I mean, ffs, I've had this page open for over an hour, watching the time countdown, and you wait until 10 seconds before the pivotal moment to ask me to do something, causing me to look away ever so briefly and miss it? ARGH!

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    4. Re:Wow by Ren.Tamek · · Score: 2, Funny

      First date in years :). It's like the gods of unix (linus himself?) came down from the heavens and sorted it out for me.

      Or maybe I just asked her out when we were drunk, one of the two.

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    5. Re:Wow by just_another_sean · · Score: 3, Funny

      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?

      About the same. Oh, except my wife is asleep in the next room.

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    6. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      If she's already pregnant then what's the class for?

  7. I missed it by ChienAndalu · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wrote a countdown script but then I got confused. Guess I have to wait for the 64-bit one :-(

  8. I was so close... by Paul+Wolfe · · Score: 5, Funny

    > 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!

  9. Re:What is everyone drinking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    30 day old PBR.

  10. Re:numerology: factors of 1234567890 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    sorry to break it to you but the set of even primes is quite small.

  11. In case you wondered what is special by Bromskloss · · Score: 2, Funny

    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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  12. Re:numerology: factors of 1234567890 by FrangoAssado · · Score: 5, Funny

    sorry to break it to you but the set of even primes is quite small.

    True, an even prime is really odd.

  13. Re:What is everyone drinking? by isomeme · · Score: 4, Funny

    378,683,112 second old Glenfiddich for me.

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  14. Re:What is everyone drinking? by vyruss000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wasn't it actually more of a countup? :>