From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 6395 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2022 04:26:12 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 9 Sep 2022 04:26:12 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C1A422D2; Fri, 9 Sep 2022 14:25:36 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-vs1-f44.google.com (mail-vs1-f44.google.com [209.85.217.44]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B275B422CD for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2022 14:25:32 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-vs1-f44.google.com with SMTP id c3so557166vsc.6 for ; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 21:25:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date; bh=Mqs9phbWE7TquVhVeyfuLkfQiXzvCUD0gyp866/6/Qs=; b=NyyhPmg4W6BDMH6TY0s6O40lqlo0WLWoD56aSBOXpA50Air9WpvH3H4FFxL7iKMaqp yEGVJoUJUui8IZBy2UGhYg0YQpTi/QO8IxBC3x//jrHnrRZ1huZhtFIDnOIN7V5Hypi0 drD9s1lJBt6Aj9NLCFGoN/ovSXyqGSnUy15Wf5L8UA3ARhpFk65Ivfmhz4vjnVb6mjiU L2r7U6Ndx1bqx6pDZPExi3yyi42leXVVaOT+DMDgwSDm+AxY+7Oi+fX1W1f6N/mC2DZl RGpnKURe2Q/kbbqOA3bzUiYGryUpuMU+LeWHmutvhpPc+VI2IovQt/c0ry1rIzEFNREs A+Sw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date; bh=Mqs9phbWE7TquVhVeyfuLkfQiXzvCUD0gyp866/6/Qs=; b=TorgQqyDtDEGygb0YlXRmTPuAygP5q9vxDiUxuiDsZUMDk0qbTWLoMsj9scvWROVjD WZIZl/0ffckdw/391ReSO49r4msfzH1INjQ+7oa/20lUjFzcCMh3R75Nn8mAWJRyUAct W5vrg7IzFQkFajsK2T4W48UCKEuyod/ZkJ/tlxYstpJ4pPO+0QJcwm+hCnbLkAWhlqUf NqrdivCI7jHpChJB4Iv9ERMbGnGH+D4BBJznlARjBCMerSjUUbOPOwfN2PfYZWrbQlf+ EGM/44AF2eZyMrrXhJespwXKhRoSjBZBmB8veHt+yQne8qziDp2D4DqHQQTc+FtGg8xl mV2Q== X-Gm-Message-State: ACgBeo3bzYLxNb7X2cOGSoJNr1lfO8CgQBK5Ud6BEKamJkeTvef1HfM/ AkKQzded+FintoNsA4KtamXx0RfDxGV1+Kn3r10asRIQ X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA6agR67llMzeOjD0XcgU2bb4dOMybyMqBCXIbwkiOkKBlGNeb1RKgYaNEVVgmrqJSU2ZWSEmWZTWN7swHpwgff2WjQ= X-Received: by 2002:a67:fdc3:0:b0:398:26c4:52f9 with SMTP id l3-20020a67fdc3000000b0039826c452f9mr3801887vsq.8.1662697471780; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 21:24:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Rob Pike Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 14:24:20 +1000 Message-ID: To: Dave Horsfall Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000002cace305e836ec4c" Message-ID-Hash: 3PLWCICI4PRMX5XM4F6K3IADSRFP7YQP X-Message-ID-Hash: 3PLWCICI4PRMX5XM4F6K3IADSRFP7YQP X-MailFrom: robpike@gmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Happy birthday, Unix timestamp! List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --0000000000002cace305e836ec4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Oops, 2001 of course, but you knew that from multiple contextual clues. -rob On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 9:48 AM Rob Pike 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 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 >> > --0000000000002cace305e836ec4c Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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:

On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 8:29 AM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrot= e:
https://www.timeanddate.com/on-this-day/september/9

``Unix time or Unix epoch, POSIX time or Unix timestamp, is a time system <= br> =C2=A0 that measures the number of seconds since midnight UTC of January 1,= 1970,
=C2=A0 not counting leap seconds. At 01:46:40 UTC on September 9, 2001, Uni= x time
=C2=A0 reached the billionth second timestamp.''

Hard to believe that it was that long ago...

-- Dave
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