Aaron's Worthless Words » unix http://aconaway.com It's possible that someone somewhere needs to see this. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:07:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Unix Epoch + 1234567890 = Next Friday http://aconaway.com/2009/02/03/unix-epoch-1234567890-next-friday/ http://aconaway.com/2009/02/03/unix-epoch-1234567890-next-friday/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:20:32 +0000 Aaron Conaway http://aconaway.com/?p=196 I’m kind of an obsessive-compulsive when it comes to numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5…), so I’m fairly excited about next Friday (..6, 7, 8, 9, 10…) when Epoch time reaches 1234567890 at 18:31:30 on 13 February(…11, 12, 13, 14, 15…).  I’m sure my ADD will kick in (Oh, look.  A squirrel!) right before, but I’ll try to remember to run to a Linux box and type date +%s (…16, 17, 18, 19, 20!  Made it!).

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]]> http://aconaway.com/2009/02/03/unix-epoch-1234567890-next-friday/feed/ 3 Leap Second http://aconaway.com/2009/01/02/leap-second/ http://aconaway.com/2009/01/02/leap-second/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:34:48 +0000 Aaron Conaway http://aconaway.com/?p=179 Did anyone notice (or care about) the leap second?  I did neither.  Here’s some cool output from Kevin Oberman on the NANOG list, though.

bash-2.05b# date
Thu Jan  1 00:59:58 CET 2009
bash-2.05b# date
Thu Jan  1 00:59:59 CET 2009
bash-2.05b# date
Thu Jan  1 00:59:60 CET 2009
bash-2.05b# date
Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 CET 2009
bash-2.05b# date
Thu Jan  1 01:00:01 CET 2009
bash-2.05b#

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