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Party Like It's 1234567890!
Feb 13, 2009, 14 :43 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (7687 reads)

"1234567890 Day has some party sites and schedules.

There are a couple of ways to find out when 1234567890 happens in your local time:

$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890)," ";'

$ date -d @1234567890

Of course, real time geeks go by UTC:

$ date -ud @1234567890

See the current UNIX time with this command:

$ date +%s

" Unix weenies everywhere will be partying like it's 1234567890 this Friday."

"Forget the Mayans and their silly 2012 doomsday scenario. The real end of the world will happen because of that most venerable of operating systems: UNIX."

What is this UNIX time, anyway? According to Wikipedia, UNIX time is a system for describing points in time, defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds." (Didn't we just have fun mocking Microsoft because they still don't know how to program leap days?)

This has been fun, but I have to get going now. It's never too early to prepare for Y3K.


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Are you eagerly awaiting the big event?  ...   ball drop   
fred dorfman
Feb 13, 2009, 17:46:55
 
> Are you eagerly awaiting the big event ...   Re: ball drop   
Carla Schroder
Feb 13, 2009, 17:57:23
 
 Are you eagerly awaiting the big event? ...   Re: ball drop   
GreyGeek
Feb 13, 2009, 18:09:06
 
I think it's more appropriate to jus ...   Re: ball drop   
Bauke Jan Douma
Feb 13, 2009, 18:34:00
 
> Are you eagerly awaiting the big event ...   Re: ball drop   
Bauke Jan Douma
Feb 13, 2009, 18:43:03
 
I'm gonna wait to celebrate until it ...   9876543210   
Russ James
Feb 14, 2009, 00:23:41
 
OOPS! There Will be a Roll-over problem  ...   Re: 9876543210 OOPS!   
GaAsP
Feb 14, 2009, 21:18:10
 
> OOPS! There Will be a Roll-over proble ...   Re: Re: 9876543210 OOPS!   
blackhole
Feb 16, 2009, 22:21:33
 
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