From: Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.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, 4 Nov 2018 18:29:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALMnNGizsbh9PJcK+qdaGrRZexfFnyJWO+VYfUQD+nW5mb=VOA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpJD9PVYYqmAPY=kHNhzGYTCaoGTTgoK8pHeSyXq=rYaw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sunday, November 4, 2018, 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
>
>
The interesting number happened also specifically on Feb 13, 2009 23:31:30
(UTC)
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--Andy
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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 [this message]
2018-11-05 0:42 ` Bakul Shah
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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