Historical Unix day

[Mark Ovens]

On 17/03/2005 15:51 Mark Ovens gurgled:

> On 17/03/2005 11:48 Benny Goemans gurgled:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> this is completely non FreeBSD related, but it is a Unix related 
>> announcement, so I sent this to the announce mailingslist and now also 
>> to the freebsd-chat list.
>> This night (at least in GMT time) will be the most special day ever for 
>> Unix and Linux users:
>> 
>> it will be EXACTLY 1111111111 seconds since january 1, 1970; I think we 
>> should all have a nice little Unix party then :D
>> 
> 
> Specifically, just before 2a.m. GMT Friday...
> 
> postbag# date -r 1111111111
> Fri Mar 18 01:58:31 GMT 2005
> 
> Is that when the party starts, or finishes? either way, it's going to be 
> a late night :-)
> 

Hmmm, this prompted me to see when the next milestone date, 1234567890, 
is....

postbag# date -r 1234567890
Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 GMT 2009

Friday the 13th :-(

Mark



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