From: Robert Brockway <robert@timetraveller.org>
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: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 09:39:04 +1000 (AEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1811050919370.13752@mira.opentrend.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1811050746480.78183@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Mon, 5 Nov 2018, 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).
> -- Andy Tannenbaum
>
> Hmmm... According to my rough calculations, it hit a billion (US) seconds
> around 2000.
There were billion second parties around the world at the time. Two days
later all hell broke loose...
$ date -d @1000000000 -u
Sun Sep 9 01:46:40 UTC 2001
A few of my friends had a lunch to celebrate 1.5 billion seconds since the
epoch in 2017 too. Alas, I couldn't make it to lunch. 1.5 billion
seconds was actually reached during the lunch thanks to our TZ:
$date -d @1500000000
Fri Jul 14 12:40:00 AEST 2017
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-05 1:11 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
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 [this message]
2018-11-05 3:54 ` Dave Horsfall
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