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Post number 9942

otherchaz — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 16:11:46 -0800

Party Like It's 999,999,999 "The UNIX epoch dates from January 1st, 1970. Every UNIX system in the world worth its salt keeps track of time by counting every single second since the midnight just before that auspicious date. And soon, they're all going to hit a billion"

How will you celebrate the Gigasecond, September 9 at 01:46:39 UTC ?

By: ilsa

ilsa — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 16:20:03 -0800

In a bomb shelter with the generator gassed up and plenty of canned food, bottled water, and batteries!! Or maybe I'll just have a martini. Happy Gigasecond, everyone.

By: marknau

marknau — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 16:29:34 -0800

As someone with only 9 fingers, I deeply resent all this base-10-ism.

By: skallas

skallas — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 16:36:11 -0800

Probably worrying about Jan 1 2038.

By: Su

Su — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 17:30:21 -0800

My copy of Windows will probably crash in recognition.

By: bobo123

bobo123 — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 18:08:05 -0800

If it's even half as much fun as odd day I'll be happy. Good point on the 2038 thing, sure my friends laugh when I try to make my programs 2038 compliant, but I'll have the last laugh 37 years from now.

By: otherchaz

otherchaz — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 18:23:34 -0800

Find the Gigaseconds in your life

By: wackybrit

wackybrit — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 19:02:43 -0800

Argh! A few months ago I was playing with the time() command I was almost certain that no-one else would notice (other people having more to do with their time than me).. So I was saving it up and saving it up, and would impress the world with my geekiness by annoucing the billionth second since the UNIX epoch. Thanks for destroying the future fame and respect I could have earned from fellow nerds! I am but a wreck. Of course, the hilarious thing, for me, is that I worked out the billionth section to be approximately October 27th.. must have my calculations wrong.. so I would have celebrated it on the wrong day anyway, mwahaha.

By: jcterminal

jcterminal — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 19:57:10 -0800

September 9th? Why that's the same day my community site becomes one year old! the url is: www.cra- yikes! /me runs from matt!

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 20:01:08 -0800

Post in a hurry or I'd check it myself - isn't September 9th of some year in the next decade or so also supposed to be the end of this cosmic cycle in the Mayan calendar? Seems to ring a bell...

By: stevis

stevis — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 20:23:06 -0800

isn't September 9th of some year in the next decade or so also supposed to be the end of this cosmic cycle in the Mayan calendar? Yes, December 21st, 2012 - the Winter Solstice Sun Conjuncts The Sacred Tree in 2012 A.D. Find more about the Mayan Calendar event in "The How and Why of the Mayan End Date In 2012 A.D."

By: rodii

rodii — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 20:30:25 -0800

I'm still getting over the Year One Bug.

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 22:51:40 -0800

Wow, Unix is only 18 days older than I am. At least now I'll know when my billionth second comes along.

I hope you'll all get me some neat gifts!

By: skallas

skallas — Fri, 07 Sep 2001 00:09:30 -0800

I'm still getting over the Year One Bug. That's hilarious. "Sorry time to upgrade." Reminds me of my system to change A.D. and B.C. into more secular terms. A.D. could be "another day" because you're using addition and B.C. could be "Begin countdown" because of the subtraction. Simple, smart, and it works. For some reason the real competitor seems to be the common era and before common era crap. B.C.E. A whole other letter. They're madmen. Common era? What's that? It doesn't even make sense.