[Gllug] Billennium! Party!(?)

colin murphy colin at ql4ever.demon.co.uk
Sun Sep 9 07:13:19 UTC 2001


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.

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