[TUHS] Happy birthday, Unix timestamp!

[Dan Cross]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2022, 7:50 PM Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:

> There was a delightful conference in Copenhagen celebrating that event,
> and I was lucky enough to attend. The slides of my talk live here:
> http://herpolhode.com/rob/ugly.pdf
>
> I flew back the next day, September 10, 2011, and it was a beautiful clear
> night with a stunning view of the city. We sat in the last row of the
> plane, and had an unobstructed view of the trade towers as we landed near
> midnight. We went home, fell asleep, and were woken by a phone call about
> 9am.
>

You probably flew approximately over me. I was working late that night in
downtown Manhattan, a few blocks from the WTC, trying to get a demo working
on a Compaq iPaq running Plan 9 in preparation for a trade show in San
Diego a day or two later. That, of course, never happened.

        - Dan C.


-rob
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 8:29 AM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>
>> https://www.timeanddate.com/on-this-day/september/9
>>
>> ``Unix time or Unix epoch, POSIX time or Unix timestamp, is a time system
>>   that measures the number of seconds since midnight UTC of January 1,
>> 1970,
>>   not counting leap seconds. At 01:46:40 UTC on September 9, 2001, Unix
>> time
>>   reached the billionth second timestamp.''
>>
>> Hard to believe that it was that long ago...
>>
>> -- Dave
>>
>
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