Happy 1234567890 everyone! - Democratic Underground

Earth_First

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Fri Feb-13-09 06:44 PM
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Happy 1234567890 everyone!

...it's about 10 minutes belated, but the party has just begun! WOOT!

That's because, at precisely 3:31:30 p.m. Pacific time on February 13, 2009, the 10-digit "epoch time" clock used by most Unix computers will display all ten decimal digits in sequence. (That's 6:31:30 Eastern, or 23:31:30 UTC.)

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/unix-lovers-to.html

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stopbush

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Fri Feb-13-09 06:58 PM
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1. And the world didn't come to an end?

Huh.

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Tesha

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Fri Feb-13-09 08:11 PM
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2. No, the world comes to an end at 03:14:08 UTC on Tuesday, 19 January 2038.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

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