date/time value reaches 1234567890 tonight
Many computer systems represent date and time values by counting the number of seconds since a specific date and time. The commonly used UNIX date time value counts from 1 January 1970 00:00 GMT.
At 23:31:30 GMT today (Friday 13 February 2009) the unix datetime value reaches the integer number 1234567890.
Frequently asked questions
Q1: Is there a website where I can see a countdown?
A: Why yes, visit : http://www.1234567890day.com or also http://coolepochcountdown.com
Q2: Will anything bad happen?
A: Probably not. We have another 29 years before we reach the maximum 32 bit value for this time, see wikipedia on the 2k38 problem
Q3: Is this important?
A: Not really[1], just a cool number.
Q4: How do I turn a number into a local date/time?
A: date -r 1234567890
Q5: How do I find out what time it is in this form
A: date +%s
Q6: But I don't have a unix machine?
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[1]: Unless you wrote some code in the 80's or 90's and never imagined we'd still run your program, or have working computers after y2k and decided that 1234567890 was a nice number to represent something like 'end of file', or 'initiate self destruct sequence'.
