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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. Re:FIRST by __NR_kill · · Score: 2, Informative

    technically it's a dupe.
    http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/2043206

  2. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Joss Whedons new series Dollhouse will start airing today. Will be friggin epoch :>

  3. Re:Wow by ed.mps · · Score: 3, Informative

    same here

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  4. Re:Wow by AaxelB · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'll also be wishing I had a girlfriend, but while drinking with other people. Most of whom are couples. Meh.

  5. numerology: factors of 1234567890 by cats-paw · · Score: 4, Informative

    123456890 = 2 * 5 * 17 * 751 * 967

    Aaargh ! If only it had been prime.

    Oh, wait just 1 more second.

    1234567891 is prime :-)

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    1. Re:numerology: factors of 1234567890 by fire4ever · · Score: 0, Informative

      The number 2 is even and it's prime.

  6. Re:FIRST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Um, the epoch hasn't changed.

  7. Re:Google by CaptCovert · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is this what you're looking for?

  8. It looks like by fishthegeek · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google got in on the action too.... here's the screen grab.

    Google 1234567890

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  9. Re:Aquarius by Hognoxious · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unfortunately, living in a basement makes it difficult to "let the sunshine in".

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  10. Re:Exactly 1234567890 seconds? by againjj · · Score: 4, Informative

    The average person does not understand the difference between UTC and UT1. That is why Unix does not account for leap seconds. UTC uses SI seconds. Unix uses the rubber seconds that the average person understands. So, the correct statement is "At 23:31:30 UT1, the number of seconds since January 1st 1970 will be exactly 1234567890."

    Besides, it doesn't matter anyway, since this is simply for fun (and part of the fun is annoying pedants).

  11. Re:Exactly 1234567890 seconds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Neither do you understand the difference. The difference between UTC1 and UTC is less than 1 sec, so it cannot explain the 24 second difference.

    Want you really want to say is that you're counting mean solar seconds between 23:31:30 UTC (or UT1) and January 1st 1970.