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Message 87153 - Posted: 17 Mar 2005, 23:55:11 UTC

initsix writes "Break out your party hats. According to http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm , Unix time is supposed reach 1111111111 on Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:58:31 GMT That's only 1036372537 seconds from 2^31 (ie Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:08 GMT)!!"


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Message 87157 - Posted: 18 Mar 2005, 0:02:24 UTC - in response to Message 87153.  
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> initsix writes "Break out your party hats. According to
> http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm , Unix time is supposed reach
> 1111111111 on Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:58:31 GMT That's only 1036372537 seconds
> from 2^31 (ie Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:08 GMT)!!"
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> Greetings from Germany NRW
> Ulli href="http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=3067">S@h
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Yikes! I knew that there was always something funny about Yoonix/Linoox.
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Message 87213 - Posted: 18 Mar 2005, 2:04:36 UTC - in response to Message 87157.  

You're not going to believe this, I just went to my unix prompt and typed "date +%s" to see how close I was in my timezone, and the result:


[root@support1]# date +%s
1111111118

I missed it by 7 seconds!






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