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Today Is EPOCH Day 15000

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the celebrate-round-numbers dept.

A great number of people wrote in to note that it's EPOCH Day 15000, so don't expect the post office to run, and I'm pretty sure the markets will be closed. And presumably your employer gave you a paid vacation day?

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  1. Re:Of course my employer gave me a paid vacation d by garyok · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's also Republic Day here in India too, celebrating them (I'm just visiting from London) finally ratifying their own constitution and throwing off the last of the laws imposed on them by the perfidious British oppressors. Having witnessed the independence of spirit and disdain for tyrannical rules most Indians exhibit on the road first-hand (like, you know, all driving the same way along a carriageway), I'm frankly amazed the Raj lasted longer than a day and a half.

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  2. I'm waiting for Epoch Second 1300000000 by ahecht · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm waiting for Epoch Second 1300000000, which will be Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:06:40 GMT

    All those zeros will ease the pain of 2011 being the first year since 1977 that no one could make year-shaped glasses for new year's eve that actually allow you to see out of both eyes.

  3. EPOCH success? by peter_gzowski · · Score: 4, Funny

    EPOCH fail!

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  4. Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness by memojuez · · Score: 3, Funny

    It went down hard

    The URL gives you this message

    Hello Slashdotters and your almight power of click. Thanks for coming to the site. If you can wait about 30 minutes, we'll have it back up.

    BTW, we tried to plan for a Slashdotting as much as we could when we setup the server for the site. Apparently still not enough.

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  5. Re:Whats the big deal? by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's to fuck with future civilizations. Though, to be truly effective, you need an ominous and arbitrary end date as well.

    It worked for the Mayans!

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  6. Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness by StikyPad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hello Slashdotters and your almight power of click. Thanks for coming to the site. If you can wait about 30 minutes, we'll have it back up.

    BTW, we tried to plan for a Slashdotting as much as we could when we setup the server for the site. Apparently still not enough.

    I call BS. We all know nobody reads TFA. This post is a lie, just like the cake!

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