Archive for February 13th, 2009

1,234,567,890th second since UNIX epoch. Where will you be?

Friday, February 13th, 2009
“At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890. Where will you be at this momentous second?” - from Bell Labs

Surely you would want to find out what time this second comes in your local time? Well, provided that your *nix system has perl installed you can run the following command in shell:

perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'

Here in Finland this will not happen on Friday 13th but very soon after midnight on Saturday. More precisely at “Sat Feb 14 01:31:30 2009″, as was reported by the above line of perl code… I myself will most likely be high or sleeping at that very moment - where will you be?

P.S. See also: One of those magic times: On Friday the 13th! by Jon maddog Hall & The 1,234,567,890th second approacheth at Linux-Watch.

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