On Monday,  5 November 2018 at  7:52:03 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> UNIX was half a billion (500000000) seconds old on Tue Nov  5 00:53:20
> 1985 GMT (measuring since the time(2) epoch).
> 		-- Andy Tannenbaum
>
> Hmmm...  According to my rough calculations, it hit a billion (US) seconds
> around 2000.

Yes, on 9 September 2001 (two days before *the* 11 September), and on
14 July last year it hit 1500000000 seconds:

  $ TZ=UTC date -r 1000000000
  Sun  9 Sep 2001 01:46:40 UTC
  $ TZ=UTC date -r 1500000000
  Fri 14 Jul 2017 02:40:00 UTC

Greg
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