From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 6d8c3cc2 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2018 00:28:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 32CE8A2302; Mon, 5 Nov 2018 10:28:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5746FA2161; Mon, 5 Nov 2018 10:28:12 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 79FB9A21D9; Mon, 5 Nov 2018 09:35:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from www.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [208.86.226.86]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85AEA1FBC for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2018 09:35:07 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (lemis.com [192.109.197.81]) by www.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B19321B72838; Sun, 4 Nov 2018 23:35:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 657D44494B5; Mon, 5 Nov 2018 10:35:05 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 10:35:05 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Dave Horsfall Message-ID: <20181104233505.GA70281@eureka.lemis.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix half a billion seconds old in 1985 X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAlvfgikACgkQIubykFB6QiPryQCfRM8943XEhZj7ifEm1tyuWc+q MqoAn3SYvB+kIqYteSryMrEzwmNoXWwN =6ozB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z--