[lug] Toasting 1234567890

[Neal McBurnett]

Congrats, Tom, and thanks for (yet another) post here on this timestamp anniversary!

I ran across some related pages:

Other events: http://www.1234567890day.com/

So I listed yours at the Scotch Corner Pub:
 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1825791/?ps=5

A nice countdown: http://redhorse.se/cs/time.html

Twitter: http://twitter.com/utcwatch

But I'm sad that everyone is ignoring the 24 leap seconds that will
have passed by then, ignored by the kernel....

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

So I'll also celebrate the passing of 1234567890 TAI standard seconds
since January 1 1970, 00:00 UT1, 24 seconds earlier.

Because of the "rubber seconds" in use before 1972 and other issues
there are actually several other interpretations of the number of
seconds since 1970 - see these links:

 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html#POSIX 
 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html#POSIXepoch

And the legal situation is different still, see:

 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/epochtime.html

Anyway, sorry I probably won't be there at the pub....

Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:34:05AM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> May any and all join me for a toast at precisely 1234567890 
> down at The Scotch Corner Pub in downtown Boulder at 1800 
> Broadway.  If you haven't been keeping track, that's at:
> 
>   Magic moment is E+1234567890: Fri Feb 13 16:31:30 MST 2009.
> 
> BTW, O'Reilly published my little ditty, including a puzzler at 
> the end, at:
>    
>   http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/02/unixs-magical-moment-as-foreto.html
> 
> Feel free to pass the link on to w{hom,her}soever you please.
> 
> --tom