Brian Epstein on Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:00:17 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] Party to celebrate 10^9 seconds of UNIX?


> According to, "date -d '1970-01-01 1000000000 sec'", the milestone will be
> reached Sun Sep 9 02:46:40 EDT 2001. A quick search on the web showed that some
> other LUGs will be having a party that night so I was wondering if anyone in
> Philly was interested in a party as well.

Hrm, I've been couting down (or up) to the 1,000,000,000 second marker for
a couple of weeks now.  I'm using perl and I get a different date then
you.

Am I doing something wrong here?

ctd:~$ perl -e '$a=localtime(1000000000); print "$a\n";'
Sat Sep  8 21:46:40 2001

ctd:~$ perl -e '$a=gmtime(1000000000); print "$a\n";'
Sun Sep  9 01:46:40 2001

According to my perl, it is going to happen Sept 9th at 1:46 GMT, which
would be 9:46:40pm Eastern.

what's the right time?
ep

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