[lug] ANNOUNCEMENT: The billion is coming!

[D. Stimits]

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
> Forwarded from another mailing list I'm on.  Isn't this less than a week
> from the 10th anniversary of Linux?
> 
> Needless to say, we WILL be having a party for this.
> 
> Sean
> =========================
> For those of you now familiar with it, UNIX keeps track of time as a number
> of seconds since midnight 1 January 1970.  By now, this is a pretty big
> number.
> 
> In fact, on Sunday, 9 September 2001 at 01:46:40 UTC (that's 7:46 p.m.
> Saturday the 8th here), it will hit exactly *one billion* seconds.  I
> figure that's a good reason to celebrate :-).
> 
> The details have not been sorted out yet; this is just a heads-up that
> something is coming.  If you want to watch it approach, try this command...
> 
>         watch -n 1 "date +%s | figlet -f big"
> 
> If you don't have figlet on your system, you'll have to settle for...
> 
>         watch -n 1 "date +%s"

Gee...I'm scared...my system isn't 2038 compliant! I'll definitely have
to reboot by then.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

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