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Unix time – 1234567890

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On February 13, 2009 at 23:31:30 UTC, the Unix time number will reach 1234567890 seconds.

For those who don’t know, Unix time is also known as POSIX time and is defined as the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight on January 1, 1970, not including added leap seconds.

One amusing fact is that Unix time didn’t actually come into existence until 1972.

You can learn more at Wikipedia if you are interested.

I saw this on Reddit and added to it.

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9 Comments to

“Unix time – 1234567890”

On January 15th, 2009 at 9:18 am JoshPanter Says:
That’s my daughter’s birthday! And also a Friday the 13th…ooohhhhh
On January 15th, 2009 at 11:34 pm cynic Says:
Another bit of related humor (be sure to hold your cursor over the comic to read the alt text as that’s 1/2 of the funny):

http://xkcd.com/376/
On January 16th, 2009 at 7:09 am matthew Says:
Hysterical! I love xkcd, but I hadn’t seen that one. Thanks!
On January 16th, 2009 at 4:18 pm aleszabijak Says:
Great!
I will celebrate it like Silvester. Party and boost. i look forward
On January 21st, 2009 at 4:48 pm glenneroo Says:
yihawwwwwww! i came across this on accident the other day when converting timestamps hehe seriously i’m gonna party like its 2000! except that i didn’t actually party in 2000 (i don’t like obligatory partying) however since this is a considerably more legitimate date than some hokey useless calendar with freakin leap years, this friday the 13th shall go down in the books, oh yes!
On January 31st, 2009 at 4:02 am Andrew Chalkley Says:
I decided to make a small web app to commemorate 1234567890

http://1234567890.chalkley.org/

I published the source here:

http://github.com/chalkers/1234567890/
On January 31st, 2009 at 8:05 am matthew Says:
Andrew: that’s cool! Thanks for linking it.
On February 12th, 2009 at 1:56 pm Randall Krause Says:
A similar event occured in March of 2005 when Unix time passed the 1,111,111,111 mark. I blogged about it as well as this next occurence here:

http://community.livejournal.com/do_ne_ge_of_cu/2607.html
On February 13th, 2009 at 3:23 pm matthew Says:
FYI, all. To find out the current Unix time on your Linux/MacOSX/BSD/Unix computer, go to the command line and enter:
date -%s