Unix Epoch + 1234567890 = Next Friday

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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!).

Leap Second

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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#

Unix on Aaron's Worthless Words

Unix Epoch + 1234567890 = Next Friday

Leap Second