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Re: [PLUG] History is 1/2 over on Saturday
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Wow.
As I don't expect to be alive when Unix dies, my sympathies to you
young bloods.
bs
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Mark Dominus wrote:
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> Unix systems store times as the total number of seconds elapsed since
> midnight, 1 January 1970. Typically, this value is stored as a 32-bit
> signed integer, which has a range from -2147483648 to 2147483647.
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> This range extends to 22:14:07 on Monday, 18 January 2038, at which
> time the universe will come to an end.
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> Next Saturday, 10 January, at 8:37:04, is exactly halfway between the
> zero point in 1970, and the apocalypse in 2038. At this moment, the
> Unix epoch will be exactly half over.
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> Happy birthday!
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