I was in that irc channel at the time of the change. I've got to say, in all my years of IRCing, I've never seen a channel scroll by so fast. I have the feeling that if I was on a dialup, that one channel would have easily used all my bandwidth.
-Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 9:40 PM Subject: [brluglist] Welcome to the new Billennium! > > In case you missed it, tonight, around 8:46pm the > UNIX time_t counter, which is how most UNIX operating systems > keep time -- counting seconds since 01/01/1970 12:00am, ticked > over from 999999999 -> 1000000000. i.e. 1 billion seconds. > > There was a IRC channel gathering on the Openprojects.net > network. Some 500 people gathered in #billennium (and a > few other misspelled channels) to mark the passing... > obsessively timesyncing with the NIST and USNO atomic clocks > and watching "while true; do date +%s ; done". > > Several people also contributed perl/C/other-language code > to do more or less the same thing. > > -- > Mark Orr > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
