In an hour comes another fun moment in time: Unix time_t reaches 1234567890 seconds.
That's at 23:31:30 UTC the night between friday February 13th and saturday 14th. Here are some related pages: http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/02/unixs-magical-moment-as-foreto.html Events: http://www.1234567890day.com/ A nice countdown: http://redhorse.se/cs/time.html Twitter: http://twitter.com/utcwatch But I'm sad that most everyone is forgetting the 24 leap seconds that will have passed by then, ignored by the kernel.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second So I'll also celebrate the passing of 1234567890 UTC seconds since January 1 1970, 00:00, which is 24 seconds earlier. As Steve so carefully describes, because of the "rubber seconds" in use before 1972 and other issues there are actually several other interpretations of the number of seconds since 1970 - see these links: http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html#POSIX http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html#POSIXepoch And the legal situation is different still, see: http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/epochtime.html Cheers! Or as we say in Esperanto, "Sanon!" Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/ _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
