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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. should we collect screenshots now? by daniel23 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    dp@tui:~$ perl -e 'print time(),"\n";'
    1234567890

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    605413? Yes, it's a prime.
    1. Re:should we collect screenshots now? by Bandman · · Score: 2, Interesting

      My screenshot

      I used 'watch -n'

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  2. Exactly 1234567890 seconds? by aj50 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At 23:31:30 UTC, the number of seconds since January 1st 1970 will be exactly 1234567890.

    Except it won't because unix time doesn't account for leap seconds

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    1. Re:Exactly 1234567890 seconds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      +1, pedant.

  3. epoch = 0x49999999 is on monday by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    % date -ud @`hextodec 49999999`
    Mon Feb 16 16:51:37 UTC 2009

    And no, 0x50000000 isn't one second after that.

  4. google front page by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    google briefly changed their logo the below graphic:

    http://www.google.com/logos/unix1234567890.gif

  5. I almost missed it by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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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  6. Re:Wow by greg_barton · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm spending it at home with my wife and 18 month old daughter, who we named after the first computer programmer, Ada.

    Hang in there, Mr Geek. Your time will come.