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Thu, 12 Feb 2009

Time’s up!

Unix time is fun! As I noted in a previous entry about the nature of timekeeping in the computer world, Unix tracks time by counting seconds since January 1, 1970.

The latest milestone for Unix time is at 23:31:30 UTC on February 13, 2009. People who like patterns in their numbers will rejoice as Unix time reaches 1234567890 seconds since the beginning of the Epoch. By coincidence, this day falls on Friday the 13th on the Gregorian calendar.

If you're using a Unix or Unix-like system, you can see how this works:

[on GNU]

>$ date -ud@1234567890

[on BSD]

>$ date -ur 1234567890

That will look like this:

For more information see the time_t entry on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.