[Tfug] Today: time 1,234,567,890 seconds

[Robert Hunter]

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On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:56:45PM -0700, erich wrote:
> Hmmm, That works out to about 39.147 years. 1970 is when I got my
> degree, and UNIX was definitely around at that time. That's 75BCD15
> in HEX, so I'm wondering if something significant about HW/SW
> architecture happened at that time.

The choice of epoch in computing is somewhat arbitrary (or at least
context-dependent), as the table below seems to indicate.  However, I
would venture a guess that Unix epoch corresponds roughly to the
origin of Unix itself, which was originally developed in 1969.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(reference_date)#Notable_epoch_dates_in_computing

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

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RH

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>                          Erich
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> Angus Scott-Fleming wrote:
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>> Today is ... the day when we reach the symbolic 1234567890th second of 
>> Unix time.  This will occur at  11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009.  
>>
>> A quick note:  To see when this time is going to occur in your 
>> locatime:  
>>
>> perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'
>>
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