Today Is EPOCH Day 15000

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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Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness

[suso]

And if Slashdot would have accepted my story earlier that I tried posting a few times, you could have joined in on the countdown and parties. Somehow, I knew that Slashdot would do this. Posting things after the fact.

Nevertheless, we had a pretty good party in Bloomington last night with around 40 people, DJ, free pizza, cake and so on. We all had fun and it was a good social outing. Maybe someone will post a picture of our Epoch Day 15000 party cake. If I could get my phone out of this funky state its in I could post a video.

Official Day 15000 website

Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness

[mbreitba]

Static pages FTW.

Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness

[memojuez]

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.

Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness

[StikyPad]

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!

Of course my employer gave me a paid vacation day

[Nursie]

It's Australia Day you insensitive clod!

So EPOCH day 15000 was marked with a trip to the beach, beer and a barbie.

Whats the big deal?

[rossdee]

Whats so special about the number 15000 ? I could understand if it was 10000 or 100000 or, for more binary based folks 16383 or 16384, but 15000?

Re:Whats the big deal?

[MightyYar]

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!

Why celebrate according to the decimal system?

[TheEmptySet]

I'll be saving my champagne for Epoch day 16,384 (otherwise known as 2^14). A little under 4 years to go...

Re:Of course my employer gave me a paid vacation d

[garyok]

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.

I'm waiting for Epoch Second 1300000000

[ahecht]

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.

EPOCH success?

[peter_gzowski]

EPOCH fail!