[Gllug] Billennium! Party!(?)

[William Palfreman]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, colin murphy wrote:

> William Palfreman wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm, is now 999999926.  (With Vivaldi's four seasons as I write)
> > 
> > --
> > W. Palfreman.
> > 
> > On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Colin Coles <Colin Coles wrote:
> > 
> > > With the risk of appearing extreamly pedantic, surely in this forum, the
> > > following would be more apt:
> > >
> > > > martin at nomad:~$ perl -e 'print time'
> > >
> > > date +%s
> > >
> > > > martin at nomad:~$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1000000000)'
> > >
> > > date -d '1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC +1000000000 seconds'
> > >
> > > plus at my reconing that's 3 less keystrokes in total :p
> > > Yes, I'm sad enough to count them.
> > >
> > >
> 
> Yeah. Happy New epoch, best wishes for 1e9+
> 
> Colin.

Well, its been 28 years since the last date rollover.  It will be be 317
years until the next rollover.  By pure luck I was able to get 1000000000
on sceen at the time.  I don't think I will be able to next time.  :-)



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