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On 23 Jan 2021 21:44 -0800, from ality@pbrane.org (Anthony Martin):
>> That was January 14, 2021, right?
> 
> % for(i in `{seq 0 2 8}) date -u 0x$i^0000000
> Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 GMT 1970
> Mon Jan  5 18:48:32 GMT 1987
> Sat Jan 10 13:37:04 GMT 2004
> Thu Jan 14 08:25:36 GMT 2021
> Tue Jan 19 03:14:08 GMT 2038
> %

GNU date would appear to agree:

$ date --utc --date=@$(printf '%d' 0x60000000)
Thu 14 Jan 2021 08:25:36 UTC
$

(At least the version I've got handy doesn't seem to like a hex
seconds-since-epoch timestamp, so a separate conversion to decimal is
required in that case.)

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