Re: OT: "S1G" (was Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31)
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:53:52AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> time zero is 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC, right? well, guess when we
> passed time 999_999_999?
>
> $ perl -e 'print scalar gmtime 1_000_000_000;'
> Sun Sep 9 01:46:40 2001
>
> Second-One-Gig was 9-september, a bit past midnight.
>
> where's cnn when you need them? we coulda had panic in the
> streets! cambells soup woulda been sold out! the networks coulda
> had a ball!
We just had a party, that's all. :)
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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