Celebrate Unix time hitting 1 billion tomorrow...

[slanning at buphy.bu.edu (Scott Lanning)]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, John Abreau wrote:
>"Steven W. Orr" <steveo at syslang.net> writes:
>> More notice? Sheesh! You had a billion seconds! How much more notice
>> you need?
>
>I've heard this referred to as "the gigasecond". If we take that as
>10^9, then that's correct, but if instead we use 2^32, then we've
>got a while yet to go, until Sat, Jan 10 08:37:04 2004 EST.

I think you meant 2^30, not 2^32. :)

$ perl -e'print 1<<30,"\n"'
1073741824
$ perl -MPOSIX -e'print strftime "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y",localtime 1<<30'
Sat Jan 10 08:36:42 2004

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