From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix half a billion seconds old in 1985
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 16:42:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181105004259.A0840156E40C@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Nov 2018 15:44:37 -0700." <CANCZdfpJD9PVYYqmAPY=kHNhzGYTCaoGTTgoK8pHeSyXq=rYaw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 04 Nov 2018 15:44:37 -0700 Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 2:35 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> 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.
> >
>
> It's over a billion and a half today:
> % date +%s
> 1541371441
Strictly speaking Unix wasn't born on Thu Jan 1 UTC 1970, right?
dmr says this in "The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing Sytem":
Although it was not until well into 1970 that Brian
Kernighan suggested the name `Unix,' in a somewhat
treacherous pun on `Multics,' the operating system we know
today was born.
I wonder if how many unix programmers were born on Thu Jan 1
UTC 1970. Linus comes close.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-05 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-04 20:52 Dave Horsfall
2018-11-04 22:44 ` Warner Losh
2018-11-05 0:29 ` Andy Kosela
2018-11-05 0:42 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2018-11-05 3:16 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2018-11-05 4:22 ` Warren Toomey
2018-11-04 23:35 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-11-08 14:25 ` WIlliam Cheswick
2018-11-04 23:39 ` Robert Brockway
2018-11-05 3:54 ` Dave Horsfall
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