At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890

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[COBOL2Java]

I can't imagine why this would affect us, but it seems to be the buzz on all the forums.

At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890. Where will you be at this momentous second?" - from Bell Labs

This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST. If you want to find out what time it will be in your local time, try this Perl script courtesy of Matias Palomec:

perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'

[paulycy]

Damn. Life is good.

[ShadowAce]

You beat me to it! I just read this article and was about to post it. LOL!

[papasmurf]

That gave me chills! :O)

This is almost as momentous as 0954 UTC on Wednesday August 22 2001 was!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Cool.

(But what is the date-time group in Mayan? Their calendar isn’t printed (er, carved in stone) past the second Venusian eclipse of the sun in 2012. Guess they ran out of rock for more pages.)

[chuck_the_tv_out]

when would YOU have stopped? You’ve got to stop carving some time right?

[paulycy]

Guess they ran out of rock for more pages.

A more popular theory is that they ran out of Earth for more days...December 20, 2012 being the end of our planet.

[zeugma]

perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'

Or, if you don't like typing...

date +%s

[DouglasKC]

TEOTWAWKI

[Crazieman]

Please tell me you don’t buy into that mayan calendar crap.

I’m sick to death of it, ready to scream over it in fact. I’m sick of seeing it, sick of seeing references.

[NCjim]

http://coolepochcountdown.com/

[Gondring]

This is almost as momentous as 0954 UTC on Wednesday August 22 2001 was!

:-(

[y6162]

Asa UNIX admin for 25 years, I’m happy to report the end times are near. Time to panic.

The Unix End Times Are Upon Us
By Wired Blogs Email July 20, 2006 | 8:27:47 PM

Some millennialists believe the world will end on December 21st, 2012 — the day the ancient Mayan calendar runs out. But if we survive that, Unix and Linux geeks know that the real end of time is waiting just around the corner: January 19, 2038, at 3:14 a.m. UTC.

That’s when Unix’s 32-bit time_t register maxes out and rolls over, Y2K-like, back to 1900, causing untold mayhem in any systems that still rely on that standard for marking time. Some far-sighted doomsayers are warning that early signs of the coming catastrophe are already casting shadows on our fragile existence. Is it a coincidence that NASA’s Spirit rover once sent back garbled messages date-stamped 2038? I think not.

Now the first horseman of the time_t apocalypse has trod its foul hooves on our world.

[y6162]

perl ..spits out bad taste

[HIDEK6]

So, what Star Date is that?

[Still Thinking]

Ooh, and on Friday the 13th to boot.

[ShadowAce]

Ooh, and on Friday the 13th to boot.

We get two consecutive Friday the 13th's this year.

February and March both have one.

<Pogo>"Oh no! Friday the 13th falls on a Friday this month!</Pogo>