* [TUHS] Unix half-billion years old 1985
@ 2019-11-04 21:08 Dave Horsfall
2019-11-04 21:10 ` Dave Horsfall
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2019-11-04 21:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
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
-- Dave
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* Re: [TUHS] Unix half-billion years old 1985
2019-11-04 21:08 [TUHS] Unix half-billion years old 1985 Dave Horsfall
@ 2019-11-04 21:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-04 21:59 ` John P. Linderman
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2019-11-04 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> UNIX was half a billion (500000000) seconds old on Tue Nov 5 00:53:20
> 1985 GMT (measuring since the time(2) epoch).
Aarrgghh! The subject should read "seconds", of course (too much blood in
my coffee stream).
-- Dave
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* Re: [TUHS] Unix half-billion years old 1985
2019-11-04 21:10 ` Dave Horsfall
@ 2019-11-04 21:59 ` John P. Linderman
2019-11-05 1:04 ` Anthony Martin
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From: John P. Linderman @ 2019-11-04 21:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Horsfall; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
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I wrote a near-trivial "timestamp" command to make it easier to do time
arithmetic (handy for scheduling a doctor's appointment a 90-day medicine
supply from now).
TZ=udt timestamp
119 11 04 21 50 06 18204 1572904206 Mon Nov 4 21:50:06 2019
TZ=udt timestamp 0
70 01 01 00 00 00 0 0 Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
TZ=udt timestamp 500000000
85 11 05 00 53 20 5787 500000000 Tue Nov 5 00:53:20 1985
TZ=udt timestamp 1000000000
101 09 09 01 46 40 11574 1000000000 Sun Sep 9 01:46:40 2001
TZ=udt timestamp 1500000000
117 07 14 02 40 00 17361 1500000000 Fri Jul 14 02:40:00 2017
TZ=udt timestamp 2000000000
133 05 18 03 33 20 23148 2000000000 Wed May 18 03:33:20 2033
TZ=udt timestamp 2500000000
149 03 22 04 26 40 28935 2500000000 Mon Mar 22 04:26:40 2049
Not likely I'll live to see 2500000000. I surely won't live to see a
half-billion years.
On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 4:11 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>
> > UNIX was half a billion (500000000) seconds old on Tue Nov 5 00:53:20
> > 1985 GMT (measuring since the time(2) epoch).
>
> Aarrgghh! The subject should read "seconds", of course (too much blood in
> my coffee stream).
>
> -- Dave
>
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* Re: [TUHS] Unix half-billion years old 1985
2019-11-04 21:59 ` John P. Linderman
@ 2019-11-05 1:04 ` Anthony Martin
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From: Anthony Martin @ 2019-11-05 1:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John P. Linderman; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
"John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com> once said:
> Not likely I'll live to see 2500000000. I surely won't live
> to see a half-billion years.
I'm patiently waiting for another Gilded Age:
% date -u `{hoc -e 'int(PHI * 1e9)'}
Sat Apr 10 05:53:08 GMT 2021
Though I wish I was around for the Belle [Labs] Époque.
Cheers,
Anthony
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