[Gllug] time_t 1e9

[Gordon Joly]

At 11:58 +0100 2001-08-24, tet at accucard.com wrote:
>  >   chris at camel:~$ perl -le 'print scalar localtime(1000000000)'
>>    Sun Sep  9 02:46:40 2001
>>
>>It's not this weekend. But sure. :-)
>
>Of course, the real milestone will be when it passes 2^30, early
>in 2004. Decimal numbers are for wimps :-)
>
>Tet



Some dates for your PDA...


1)
9th September 2001 UNIX needs that 10th digit
2)
December 23, 2012 "A huge cycle ends in the Mayan calendar. Terence 
McKenna thinks the Eschaton will Immanetize."
3)
6th February 2036 2^32 seconds after Jan 1, 1900 which could cause 
some computer problems
4)
6th February 2040 Old Macintosh computer longword seconds overflow



Unless I am wrong...

Gordo

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