Let's take a moment for a little fun and frivolity. Well, if you're a computer geek, that is.
Tomorrow (Friday) night, the clock on your Unix system will reach 1234567890 seconds after January 1, 1970 (the beginning of the Unix epoch).
From Wired:
So log in to your Unix system a few minutes ahead of time to get your watch synchronized and get ready to go. Then type in the following command at the shell prompt.
date +%s
Kind of like watching the odometer on the old family car.
Tomorrow (Friday) night, the clock on your Unix system will reach 1234567890 seconds after January 1, 1970 (the beginning of the Unix epoch).
From Wired:
Unix weenies everywhere will be partying like it's 1234567890 this Friday.That's because, at precisely 3:31:30 p.m. Pacific time on February 13, 2009, the 10-digit "epoch time" clock used by most Unix computers will display all ten decimal digits in sequence. (That's 6:31:30 Eastern, or 23:31:30 UTC.)
So log in to your Unix system a few minutes ahead of time to get your watch synchronized and get ready to go. Then type in the following command at the shell prompt.
date +%s
Kind of like watching the odometer on the old family car.
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