From: "Seth Morabito" <web@loomcom.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Happy birthday, Unix timestamp!
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:29:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22fb8110-9d31-4025-a4ab-73eb643a99d1@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2209090824480.71191@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Thu, Sep 8, 2022, at 3:28 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> https://www.timeanddate.com/on-this-day/september/9
>
> ``Unix time or Unix epoch, POSIX time or Unix timestamp, is a time system
> that measures the number of seconds since midnight UTC of January 1, 1970,
> not counting leap seconds. At 01:46:40 UTC on September 9, 2001, Unix time
> reached the billionth second timestamp.''
I remember this event vividly because at work we had an important system fail.
There was a database that was storing the time into a VARCHAR column. Unfortunately, we were sorting on that column and using the table as a queue so we could always be sure to pick up the most recent entries and act on them.
Well, you can imagine what happened when the leading digit changed from an ASCII "9" to an ASCII "1". Oops.
-Seth
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Seth Morabito
Poulsbo, WA
web@loomcom.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-09 3:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-08 22:28 [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2022-09-08 23:48 ` [TUHS] " Rob Pike
2022-09-09 0:11 ` Dan Cross
2022-09-09 4:24 ` Rob Pike
2022-09-11 0:09 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-09-09 3:29 ` Seth Morabito [this message]
2022-09-09 7:03 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-09-09 12:06 Douglas McIlroy
2022-09-09 17:16 ` Andrew Hume
2022-09-09 18:53 Norman Wilson
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