1234567890
Hopefully I’m within liberty to reproduce this information here. comp.lang.perl.misc user, Jean-Luc, has this to say about a certain timestamp (as copied from my newsreader):
Hi, As some of you know, Unix epoch time will reach the number 1,234,567,890 today at 23:31:30 UTC. If you don't know, epoch time is a measure of time in number of (non-leap) seconds since Midnight UTC on January 1, 1970. (That means over a billion seconds have passed since then.) Nostradamus once cryptically said, "The world will end when all numbers are visible." I wonder if he was talking about this epoch time stuff. (Disclaimer: I just made that quote up.) You can view the epoch time ticking away by typing the following at any DOS/Unix prompt (provided you have Perl installed): perl -le "print time and sleep 1 while 1" (You may want to synchronize your computer's clock by going to http://www.time.gov/ .) You can see the exact time of 1234567890 for your timezone by typing: perl -le "print scalar localtime 1234567890" Have a happy 1234567890 day! -- Jean-Luc
Only 1 hour 25 minutes to go.
Edit:
Dan C helpfully adds (yes, credit where credit is due)
watch -n 1 date +%s
as a handy way to watch the timer tick up to the timestamp.
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