Tomorrow, Friday, February 13th at exactly 23:31:30 UTC the Unix timestamp will hit 1234567890 seconds from midnight January 1st 1970, the moment when time began on the Unix operating system (aka the Unix Epoch). 1234567890 Day events are being planned around the world to celebrate this historic occasion. Here’s the countdown clock.
In San Francisco, the celebration takes place at 2:31 PST (1 hour early for drinks) at 21st Amendment.
comic by xkcd
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I’m gonna ask my boss if we can all take a late lunch there.
Cool! A similar event occurred in March of 2005 when Unix time passed the 1,111,111,111 mark. I actually blogged about that as well as this next occurrence here:
http://community.livejournal.com/do_ne_ge_of_cu/2607.html
I must have misread that info above about 10 times. For anyone confused like me, 23:31:30 UTC is 3:31 PST.
Drinks at 21st Amendment start an hour earlier. I’d totally go but, you know, work :p
Btw this morning I published a client-server based popup clock that’s accurate to the second (the other online counters above just show the date on the user’s computer which is typically one or two minutes off from true UTC time.) See the link in my username.
Best to be correct to have a properly coordinated celebration ;-)
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