In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "M. Warner Losh" write
s:
>Cool... A gigasecond is around 31 years, a megasecond is ~11 days and
>a kilosecond is about 17 minutes. How would you keep such divergent
>times strait? Let's meet for dinner in about 200 kiloseconds?
Actually, gigasecond parties are cool.
The local Unix User group (DKUUG) threw a "uptime(1)" party to
celebrate when time_t rolled over 1e9 seconds a couple of years
back:
http://www.uptime1.dk/
I delivered the count-down display using a FreeBSD computer with a
Rb+GPS timelock:
http://www.superusers.dk/superusers/nyt/images/r0013703.jpg
Poul-Henning
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