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From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix half a billion seconds old in 1985
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 15:44:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfpJD9PVYYqmAPY=kHNhzGYTCaoGTTgoK8pHeSyXq=rYaw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1811050746480.78183@aneurin.horsfall.org>

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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

Warner

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-04 23:40 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2018-11-05  0:29   ` Andy Kosela
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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