Re: The Quickly Descending Unix Timestamp

From: Martin Schulze (joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de)
Date: Wed Apr 18 2001 - 21:39:44 CEST

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    Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass hier auch der eine oder andere mit
    dem Kopf schuetteln will... :-)

    Slashdot Newsticker wrote:
    > http://slashdot.org/articles/01/04/17/1915221.shtml
    >
    > The Quickly Descending Unix Timestamp
    >
    > Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 18, @02:07PM
    >
    > from the sequential-numbers dept.
    >
    > Teach writes: "If my calculations are correct, on Thursday,
    > April 19, 2001, at 04:25:21 UTC (00:25:21 EDT and late
    > Wednesday at 21:25:21 PDT), the UNIX clock will read
    > 987654321, which is pretty cool. This will be the first of
    > two such "significant" events in 2001, the second being
    > 01:46:39 UTC on 2001-09-09, when the clock will read
    > 999999999 (and then of course "roll over" to 1000000000 one
    > second later). Use the Time Zone Converter to help you figure
    > out when this will occur in your area, or read up on other
    > critical dates (such as when the 32-bit signed UNIX clock
    > overflows in 2038)."

    Gruesse,

            Joey

    -- 
    All language designers are arrogant.  Goes with the territory...
    	-- Larry Wall
    



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