[TUHS] Unix half a billion seconds old in 1985

[Andy Kosela]

On Sunday, November 4, 2018, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 2:35 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
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>> UNIX was half a billion (500000000) seconds old on Tue Nov  5 00:53:20
>> 1985 GMT (measuring since the time(2) epoch).
>>                 -- Andy Tannenbaum
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>> Hmmm...  According to my rough calculations, it hit a billion (US)
>> seconds
>> around 2000.
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> It's over a billion and a half today:
> % date +%s
> 1541371441
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The interesting number happened also specifically on Feb 13, 2009 23:31:30
(UTC)

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--Andy
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