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Re: [PLUG] Party to celebrate 10^9 seconds of UNIX?
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--- Brian Epstein <ep@apiary.dhs.org> wrote:
> 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
Not to get relativistic on you or anything, but
they're *both* the right time. You're just expressing
the same actual moment in time two different ways. In
practical terms, it will feel like a Saturday night.
Unix was devised in large part by Thompson and Ritchie
at Bell Labs in New Jersey. Perhaps in their great
wisdom, the developers intended the one billionth
second to fall on a Saturday night so that appropriate
celebrations could take place. (Imagine celebrating
the one billionth second on a Monday morning over
coffee and doughnuts.... ehh) Of course that wisdom is
finite, as many of us may find out on January 19,
2038, 03:14:07 GMT :)
-Adam
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