From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Happy birthday, Unix timestamp!
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 14:24:20 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgwmY-Z0VG6uTiNp4bT3j6Cki=PuccD3=nURc0ryCdHoOQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgxpRAh83rLw9-ui15ZgA4QqSfZF6xg0Mk-Yh_LAnoebag@mail.gmail.com>
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Oops, 2001 of course, but you knew that from multiple contextual clues.
-rob
On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 9:48 AM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
> There was a delightful conference in Copenhagen celebrating that event,
> and I was lucky enough to attend. The slides of my talk live here:
> http://herpolhode.com/rob/ugly.pdf
>
> I flew back the next day, September 10, 2011, and it was a beautiful clear
> night with a stunning view of the city. We sat in the last row of the
> plane, and had an unobstructed view of the trade towers as we landed near
> midnight. We went home, fell asleep, and were woken by a phone call about
> 9am.
>
> -rob
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 8:29 AM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> 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.''
>>
>> Hard to believe that it was that long ago...
>>
>> -- Dave
>>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-09 4:26 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 [this message]
2022-09-11 0:09 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-09-09 3:29 ` Seth Morabito
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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