Damn. Life is good.
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.)
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.