Comments | beamjockey: Happy Septuple-Zero (Hex) Odometer Day

beamjockey

Happy Septuple-Zero (Hex) Odometer Day

Feb 09, 2009 13:37

Everybody seems to be talking about the moment, this coming Friday the Thirteenth, when the Unix epoch rolls over to 1234567890. (This represents, more or less, the number of seconds elapsed since the beginning of 1 January 1970. If you are a nitpicker, you may want to read up on thisI found this faintly disturbing. Seems like Unix is a creature ( Read more... )

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Comments 11

wcg February 9 2009, 19:55:43 UTC

Hey! That'll be my 58th birthday!

whl February 9 2009, 20:10:04 UTC

If you had a mac handy (I know, you're at work), that's:
date -r 1342177280
or
date -r 0x50000000

I refuse to look for interesting dates in Octal; I didn't spend much time on (n * 12) bit architectures, where n ≠ 5.

serge_lj February 9 2009, 20:42:34 UTC

I thought that the unix apocalypse was going to be the year 2038. What? Those machines won't be around by then?

archiver_tim February 9 2009, 22:41:48 UTC

Oh my! I turn 21,000 days old on the 26th of this month. Should I have a party?

beamjockey February 10 2009, 22:23:33 UTC

By all means!

acmespaceship February 9 2009, 22:43:15 UTC

Good, we needed a holiday to get us through the long cold months between Mole Day (10/23) and Pi Day (3/14). And what's this about 3/3/09 being a square root day?

I know what to serve on the buffet for Pi Day, and I know what small furry animals to use for decorating on Mole Day, but what do you serve on Unix Apocalypse Day?

Root vegetables?

Popcorn kernels?

I should stop now, right?