[HN Gopher] Tomorrow the Unix timestamp will get to 1,666,666,666
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       Tomorrow the Unix timestamp will get to 1,666,666,666
        
       Author : bubblehack3r
       Score  : 222 points
       Date   : 2022-10-24 13:36 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | bloopernova wrote:
       | To pretty print the Unix timestamp in your ZSH prompt, you can
       | use something like this:                  function prompt_epoch()
       | {          printf -v COMMA_EPOCH "%'d" ${EPOCHSECONDS}
       | p10k segment -f 66 -t ${COMMA_EPOCH}        }
       | 
       | It relies on zmodload zsh/datetime to get EPOCHSECONDS. In the
       | example above I'm using it with the powerlevel10k prompt.
        
       | timwaagh wrote:
       | And Lucifer shall walk the earth
        
       | fimdomeio wrote:
       | This should be a comemoration of the things that are easy for
       | computers to read and look like a representation of hell for
       | humans. We can't in any way find meaning in what 1,666,666,666
       | seconds are, we can only atribute some magical evil meaning to a
       | number.
       | 
       | We would start the party with google deep dream, move to
       | algorithms hiring and firing people, crime prediction, some guy
       | ranting that his life was ruined when youtube close his account
       | and the impossibility of talking to a human, and then would end
       | with a bang reaching 1,666,666,666.
       | 
       | I am a fun party planner.
        
       | sbf501 wrote:
       | Fun fact: Unix timestamp will eventually be every integer number
       | from 1 to 4294967295
        
         | fanf2 wrote:
         | The 1970 epoch was set in 1973 so time_t (as currently
         | specified) never had values less than 100,000,000
         | 
         | https://dotat.at/@/2014-11-22-nerdy-trivia-about-unix-time-t...
        
           | sbf501 wrote:
           | That's funny! I never really thought about WHEN it was
           | adopted. I guess I just assumed every nerd sat around on Dec
           | 31, 1969 and pressed a button 1 sec after 11:59 GMT. (Clearly
           | I'm joking, please don't correct me, folks!)
        
         | eska wrote:
         | Implying it hasn't already been every integer number from 1 to
         | 4294967295..
        
         | zokier wrote:
         | Except if we have a negative leap second at some point
        
           | [deleted]
        
       | stvnbn wrote:
       | why is this relevant?
        
       | yewenjie wrote:
       | Happy Halloween.
        
         | xeromal wrote:
         | Happy All Hallows Eve!
        
       | gerikson wrote:
       | In about 13 hours at time of writing, so _today_ in most US
       | timezones.
        
       | protomyth wrote:
       | Well, there is about three devils worth of pain in our Unix
       | servers sometimes.
       | 
       | I remember being in a building that was 668 and we called it
       | neighbor of the beast (US streets have odd on one side and even
       | house numbers on the other).
        
         | 867-5309 wrote:
         | "Triablo"
        
         | MisterTea wrote:
         | > Well, there is about three devils worth of pain in our Unix
         | servers sometimes.
         | 
         | Our machines have been possessed by daemons for years so I'm
         | not at all worried.
        
         | hobo_mark wrote:
         | ...as in Europe (but I am certain there are exceptions and am
         | looking forward to the replies pointing out where that is not
         | the case)
        
           | stardenburden wrote:
           | Berlin uses a different system in the older parts of the city
           | 
           | https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-berlin-
           | hous...
        
           | bloak wrote:
           | Wikipedia describes two systems in the UK:
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering#United_Kingdom
           | 
           | According to both those systems, if you look down the street
           | from the end where number 1 is (which is always the open end
           | of a cul-de-sac), then number 1 is the first house on your
           | _left_. I 'd be interested to hear about any exceptional
           | cases in which number one is on your _right_.
        
           | ajay-d wrote:
           | related maybe?
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor%27s_prime
        
           | kuschku wrote:
           | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_numbers_clockw.
           | ..
        
           | contravariant wrote:
           | I don't know of any country that uses an entirely different
           | system, but I'm willing to bet each country has a couple of
           | exceptions somewhere.
        
             | etamponi wrote:
             | IIRC, Japan uses (or used?) to number buildings in
             | chronological order.
        
           | Cthulhu_ wrote:
           | Obligatory: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-
           | programmers-believe-a...
        
         | kevin_thibedeau wrote:
         | That is not a strict rule. I grew up in a neighborhood where
         | houses were numbered by the order the lots sold. They were
         | effectively random.
        
           | protomyth wrote:
           | I know. I grew up on a road with no name that numbered the
           | houses with an odd cadence. But, well mannered neighborhoods
           | have stuck with the scheme such that most people recognize
           | the reference.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | altares wrote:
       | Praise the sun!
        
       | groffee wrote:
       | It's kind of funny people are so obsessed with 666 when it's a
       | mistranslation, the actual number was 616.
        
         | ars wrote:
         | Even funnier is that 666 is a positive/holy number in Judaism.
         | 
         | It represents the creation of the physical world: The 6
         | directions, (cardinal directions plus up and down), and the 6
         | days of creation, and repeating a number represents
         | strengthening it, i.e. it represents perfecting the physical
         | world.
         | 
         | It's also the Gematria (numerical value) of a prayer requesting
         | divine mercy.
         | 
         | https://ohr.edu/ask_db/ask_main.php/277/Q1/
         | 
         | Edit: It's also interesting that two people got so annoyed at
         | me posting this that they downvoted every one of my comments
         | that they still could.
        
           | pegasus wrote:
           | That downvoting behavior is indeed fascinating (and slightly
           | troubling).
        
         | AdmiralAsshat wrote:
         | Not a mistranslation, exactly. It depends on whether you
         | rendered Nero's name from Latin or Greek. In Greek, Nero's name
         | was written "Neron". The letter 'n' had a gematria value of 50,
         | so when transliterated into Hebrew, the extra 'n' would have
         | made the calculated value either '616' or '666' depending on
         | what source language the name came from.
        
           | dsfyu404ed wrote:
           | It might not be a mistranslation but if you wanna construct a
           | "haha people are dumb" narrative or drop a "well akschually"
           | it can be construed as one which is sufficient for that
           | purpose.
           | 
           | The above statement applies to a hell of a lot of things, not
           | just the whole 666 was/wasn't a mistranslation factoid.
           | Comments like the top level one are what platforms
           | incentivize when they "keep score" of discourse like
           | many/most do.
        
             | AdmiralAsshat wrote:
        
               | xeromal wrote:
               | The guy you're replying to isn't the top comment which I
               | believe you're talking about.
        
             | mmcgaha wrote:
             | I learned something from both posts so I am glad we got the
             | simple answer and the lets-knuth-this-thing answer too.
        
               | cristoperb wrote:
               | > lets-knuth-this-thing
               | 
               | As a related aside, Don Knuth once composed a work for
               | the pipe organ based on the book of Revelation:
               | 
               | https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fant.html
        
         | colejohnson66 wrote:
         | Citation?
        
           | Operyl wrote:
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast has a fair
           | bit on it.
        
           | pratio wrote:
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/616_(number)
        
         | reitanqild wrote:
         | seriously? If so, what is then meant with the statement about
         | it being "the number of a man"?
        
           | jollyllama wrote:
           | Man is a carbon based lifeform (atomic # 6) According to
           | Genesis, Man was made on the 6th day
        
           | AdmiralAsshat wrote:
           | The popular theory is that it referred to Emperor Nero. The
           | author was basically telling you, "I'm making an allegory
           | right now. Wink wink, nudge nudge."
        
             | whatshisface wrote:
             | That theory has never made a lot of sense to me because the
             | persecution of Christians wasn't a big secret.
        
               | lupire wrote:
               | It's generally dangerous to talk about things everyone
               | knows, when the thing everyone knows is how evil the
               | local power structure is.
        
               | AdmiralAsshat wrote:
               | Two reasons come to mind:
               | 
               | 1) There's a long history of it. Gematria was a Jewish
               | technique, then carried over to the early Christian
               | community. There may have been reasons to keep it up as a
               | matter of course, but as you said, with Nero it probably
               | didn't matter: the dude knew everyone hated him. Not just
               | Christians.
               | 
               | 2) The purpose of Revelations was meant to comfort the
               | current Christian community at the time by prophesying a
               | future calamity with many parallels to the current
               | calamity. The end of the world brings great destruction,
               | yes, but there is _vindication_ at the end of it all, and
               | hence hope for the community.
               | 
               | One thing to keep in mind about the nature of the "anti-
               | Christ" is that it is the opposite of Christ in all ways.
               | Christ was expected to come back at the end of days. So,
               | too, then, was the anti-Christ. If the anti-Christ has
               | never been seen before then "coming back" doesn't quite
               | make sense, but it _does_ make sense if the anti-Christ
               | refers to Nero: he was a complete bastard in his first
               | life, and he 's so evil that he will _come back_ at the
               | end of days to persecute Christendom again.
        
             | bloak wrote:
             | I have also heard the suggestion that 666 is an obvious
             | number to pick if you use Roman numerals, being every
             | letter (less than M) once in descending order: DCLXVI. (But
             | why exclude M?)
             | 
             | (Trivia: what is the biggest number that is an English word
             | when written as a Roman numeral?)
        
         | MichaelApproved wrote:
         | Huh. TIL!
         | 
         | From wiki:
         | 
         | > _Papyrus 115 (which is the oldest preserved manuscript of the
         | Revelation as of 2017), as well as other ancient sources like
         | Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, give the number of the beast as
         | khist or khic, transliterable in Arabic numerals as 616
         | (khist), not 666._
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast
        
         | antiterra wrote:
         | I don't think it's a mistranslation, the manuscripts themselves
         | differ. Regardless of which is 'correct,' it's likely an error
         | in the retelling or copying.
         | 
         | This person points out that either 616 or 666 could refer to
         | Nero and some other possible evidence that was the case:
         | http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-number-of-beas...
        
       | westurner wrote:
       | Approximations of Pi:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_p
       | 
       | > _In the 3rd century BCE, Archimedes proved the sharp
       | inequalities 223/71 < p < 22/7, by means of regular 96-gons
       | (accuracies of 2*10-4 and 4*10-4, respectively)._
       | 223/71  = 3.1408450704225       666/212 = 3.1415094339622       p
       | = 3.14159265359       22/7    = 3.1428571428571
       | 
       | Is p a good radix for what types of math in addition to
       | Trigonometry? And then what about e for natural systems; the
       | natural log.
       | 
       | "Why do colliding blocks compute pi?"
       | https://youtu.be/jsYwFizhncE
       | https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/clacks-solution
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/3Blue1Brown/comments/r29vm5/rationa...
       | ... Geogebra: https://www.geogebra.org/m/BhxyBJUZ :
       | 
       | > _The applet shows the old method used to approximate the value
       | of p. Archimedes used a 96-sided polygons to find that the value
       | of p is 223 /71 < p < 22/7 (3.1408 < p < 3.1429). In 1630, an
       | Austrian astronomer Christoph Grienberger found a 38-digit
       | approximation by using 10^40-sided polygons. This is the most
       | accurate approximation achieved by this method._
        
       | polotics wrote:
       | If anybody's interested, there is a best-guess on why the heck
       | 666 was declared to be the "number of the beast" in ancient
       | scriptures: It's a statement that each one of us is our own worst
       | enemy, as this is the number you can easily make an image of with
       | your left hand.
       | 
       | The fact that this was inadvertently recycled into the WP gesture
       | is abysmally hilarious.
        
         | boston_clone wrote:
         | I don't think that our current character for 6 is the same as
         | it was when those scriptures were written.
        
         | piperswe wrote:
         | From what I can tell, the earliest manuscript of Revelation
         | 13:18 (the typical source of "666" being evil) originates from
         | the third century CE in Egypt [1], instead saying "616" is the
         | mark of the beast and using the Greek numerals. The first
         | example of the earliest ancestor to the modern numeral "6"
         | appears in inscriptions in India dating to the same period [2].
         | I would expect there is no relationship between Revelation and
         | the modern numeral for 6.
         | 
         | [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_115
         | 
         | [2]:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edicts_of_Ashoka#Ancestor_of_t...
        
         | jmclnx wrote:
         | Actually I listened to a NPR show that said something like 666
         | was a mis-translation or due to a smudge on an old doc.
         | Supposedly it should be 616. IIRC, they said in Roman Numerals
         | 616 has/had somekind of meaning.
        
         | adamrezich wrote:
         | I would've thought that by 2022 everyone would have finally
         | realized that the "OK hand sign emoji = white supremacist
         | secret hand sign" thing was _literally_ a 4chan troll job.
         | people still don 't actually think white supremacists make the
         | "OK" sign with their fingers as some kind of secret signal to
         | each other, do they?
        
           | jaywalk wrote:
           | > people still don't actually think white supremacists make
           | the "OK" sign with their fingers as some kind of secret
           | signal to each other, do they?
           | 
           | The only people who ever thought that, though it because the
           | news told them so. Since the news hasn't told them it's not
           | true, they still think it is.
        
           | bena wrote:
           | This is one of those things where fiction becomes truth.
           | While it may have initially started as such, unless you can
           | also prove that every single white supremacist also knew it
           | was a joke, it kind of became a white supremacist hand sign.
           | 
           | It's an issue with satire in general. Eventually there will
           | be someone too stupid to see it as satire.
           | 
           | And then you get into Schrodinger's racist territory. Being
           | an asshole ironically is still being an asshole.
        
             | adamrezich wrote:
             | > unless you can also prove that every single white
             | supremacist also knew it was a joke, it kind of became a
             | white supremacist hand sign.
             | 
             | 4chan is an anonymous imageboard, anyone can post anything,
             | anyone can "meme" anything into being a "hate symbol".
             | 
             | it doesn't seem like a very good idea to allow 4chan trolls
             | to literally dictate societal norms, especially the
             | creation of "hate symbols". at some point one must realize
             | that such "hate symbols" _literally_ only have as much
             | power as you 're willing to grant them--so why grant them
             | any?
        
               | bena wrote:
               | This is kind of a vacuous argument. Once something leaves
               | the confines of 4chan, the origin doesn't matter. The
               | intention behind the action matters. If white
               | supremacists are using it as a signal, it is a de facto
               | white supremacist symbol.
               | 
               | And by the way you're trying to move the goalposts, I'd
               | have to say you're from Tennessee. At first your argument
               | was that "it's from 4chan, it was a joke, it didn't
               | count". And now, your argument is "words are powerless
               | unless you give them power". Which, is the sort of
               | aphorism I'd expect from Ricken.
               | 
               | Symbols are important because they serve to signal to
               | others what is and is not accepted. Or who are members of
               | your in-group, whatever those groups may be. If I go to a
               | sporting event, I can choose to adorn myself in the
               | symbols of one team or another to indicate support of
               | that team. And that tells complete strangers if I'm
               | inclined to cheer with them or against them.
               | 
               | Don't be obtuse.
        
               | adamrezich wrote:
               | > And by the way you're trying to move the goalposts, I'd
               | have to say you're from Tennessee.
               | 
               | > Which, is the sort of aphorism I'd expect from Ricken.
               | 
               | dude what are you even talking about you completely lost
               | me
               | 
               | > And now, your argument is "words are powerless unless
               | you give them power".
               | 
               | when were we talking about words? what?? I think you're
               | having an argument with some kind of Tennessean strawman
               | on accident.
        
               | bena wrote:
               | Tennessee beat Alabama in a recent game and responded by
               | ripping the goalpost out of the ground and crowd surfing
               | it around the field.
               | 
               | Ricken is a character from Severance who writes a book of
               | profound sounding nonsense.
               | 
               | I addressed why both were relevant. Your argument now is
               | different from your initial argument. And "abstract
               | concepts only have the power we give them" is the kind of
               | pap we feed to others to give ourselves license to keep
               | using shitty abstract concepts.
        
               | adamrezich wrote:
               | uh ok, apologies for not understanding all the cultural
               | references I guess?
               | 
               | what portion of people today in 2022 do you think see
               | someone use U+1F44C in electronic communications and
               | immediately think "white supremacist dogwhistle"?
               | obviously there was a bit of a "panic" there a few years
               | back, but hasn't pretty much everyone gotten over it by
               | now? I use it all the time especially as a reaction-emoji
               | in messaging services, and nobody I know (of all faiths &
               | colors) has any issue with it. I used it all the time
               | before, during, and after the 4chan trolling, with the
               | latter being what I consider to be "doing my part" in not
               | letting something so ridiculous actually take hold within
               | my culture, because holy shit how ridiculous can you be,
               | it's the OK sign, I've been making it all my life, I'm
               | not going to stop doing it because some 4chan trolls
               | (correctly, but frustratingly) thought it would be
               | hilarious to convince everyone overnight that it was the
               | Ultra Secret White Supremacist Hand Sign, _specifically_
               | because it is so widely-used by everyone.
               | 
               | so going forward, do we keep pretending like "the ok hand
               | sign" should be "white supremacist dogwhistle", just
               | because there was a brief flash-in-the-pan 4chan trolling
               | about it a few years ago, which a few people are
               | (apparently???) still sensitive about? should what
               | society determines to be "hate symbols" be exclusively
               | dictated by the most sensitive and reactionary people in
               | said society? if that's the rules you want to play by, go
               | for it man, if you need me I'll be over here in Normal
               | World where a man can pinch his index finger and thumb
               | together without being assumed to be a white supremacist.
               | 
               | "abstract concepts only have the power we give them" is
               | an absolute truth, which I am actively proving by
               | refusing to give this abstract concept any kind of
               | undesired power, and going out of my way to refuse to
               | cease using said abstract concept in my day-to-day life,
               | due to some ill-defined sense of Internet Moralism trying
               | to exert control over me by preventing me from doing so.
               | it has no power over me or anyone around me whatsoever,
               | and in fact I completely forgot it was even a thing until
               | today lmao
        
         | goto11 wrote:
         | The original scriptures did not use Arabic numerals.
        
       | greenbit wrote:
       | Why didn't 1,618,033,998 get this much buzz?? Is there a rational
       | explanation for this?
        
       | Ruq wrote:
       | Why did I just get "Dawn of the Final Day" vibes?
        
       | jl6 wrote:
       | Closing in on the Y2K38 problem.
        
         | N19PEDL2 wrote:
         | Are 32-bit systems still around? I mean other than some old
         | embedded system that will likely be decommissioned well before
         | 2038.
        
           | GuB-42 wrote:
           | Even in 64 bit systems, some numbers are stored as 32 bit
           | integers. And 32 bit systems can process 64 bit numbers, they
           | are just slower at it.
           | 
           | It is a software and standardization problem, not hardware.
        
         | onion2k wrote:
         | Nooooo! The Y2K38 problem is _already here_. It is not a
         | problem that will happen in 2038. It is a problem with _storing
         | and processing dates past 2038_. For example, if you work in a
         | bank and you have a system to store mortgage information that
         | includes the epoch timestamp that someone 's 25 year mortgage
         | will end that means you need to store a date that is in 2047.
         | If you do that using an epoch timestamp on a system that's
         | using a 32 bit timestamp it'll overflow and return a date
         | before the epoch instead.
         | 
         | Do not imagine that Y2K38 is something to put off until nearer
         | the time. You need to be thinking about it _right now_.
        
           | lupire wrote:
           | What's wrong with dates before the epoch? Subtraction of
           | rolled over unsigned ints works.
        
             | lucb1e wrote:
             | So long as you know it was before 1970, and after
             | 1970-(2038-1970)=1902, you can recover the original date,
             | yes.
        
               | coderintherye wrote:
               | I'm kind of both horrified and impressed that this very
               | solution is likely in place in some codebases.
        
             | onion2k wrote:
             | The fix itself doesn't need to be complicated for it to be
             | hard to actually implement. A lot of apps that are affected
             | probably haven't been deployed in years. Some won't have
             | any source code available. Others won't have any docs, or
             | tests, or even developers who know the right language.
             | Fixing simple issues in old apps is hard.
        
       | 9front wrote:
       | Apple I was priced at $666.66. Look at what Apple became, a
       | beast!
        
         | ArcMex wrote:
         | Can't even transact without it * wink *
        
           | jslaby wrote:
           | We got apple watch.. soon to come apple headband.
        
       | Reason077 wrote:
       | Time flies. Seems like just yesterday the clock hit 1,000,000,000
       | (Sun Sep 9 01:46:40 UTC 2001)
        
       | shashurup wrote:
       | Something like 30 years ago I came across a magazine in which
       | there was a calendar with set of events for each day so that you
       | can have a pretext to drink everyday. After a while the idea of a
       | similar service came to mind - a program which would figure the
       | nearest "round" number of seconds, minutes, days in hex, oct, bin
       | etc. So it is more than 20 years already and I'm still thinking
       | it would be great to implement it finally.
        
       | nixcraft wrote:
       | Here is how to get the date from the Unix timestamp (GNU/Linux
       | coreutils):                  date -d @1666666666
       | 
       | macOS/bsd coreutils:                  date -r 1666666666
        
         | hbarka wrote:
         | In PostgreSQL:
         | 
         | SELECT to_timestamp(1666666666);
        
         | proxysna wrote:
         | Got a bit curious.
         | 
         | date -d @6666666666
         | 
         | Wed 04 Apr 2181 01:51:06 PM CEST
        
           | dillon wrote:
           | I also got curious
           | 
           | - date -d '@2222222222' Fri Jun 1 08:57:02 PM PDT 2040
        
             | marginalia_nu wrote:
             | You're implying there's time past 2038-01-19T03:14:07?
             | That's ridiculous.
        
       | user8501 wrote:
       | I think it is often an incorrect assumption that the people who
       | flaunt numbers like this are being tongue in cheek.
       | 
       | 77
        
       | tragomaskhalos wrote:
       | The number of the beast is pretty explicitly the exact number six
       | hundred and sixty six, not 'six six six', so any other
       | concatenation of the digits should really be meh even to the
       | apocalyptically inclined.
        
         | greenbit wrote:
         | You know, "2 out of 3 ain't bad"
        
           | joshspankit wrote:
           | In this case, one out of three _is_ bad
        
       | cygx wrote:
       | At that time, a total of 1,666,666,693 seconds will have passed
       | since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT as Unix time pretends leap seconds
       | don't exist...
        
         | lucb1e wrote:
         | Hmmm, am I wrong in understanding that, by pretending leap
         | seconds don't exist, the unix time actually represents how many
         | seconds passed rather than what time time is now? (Where a
         | second is as long as every other second, not smearing out the
         | leap second across the whole year. I.e. by the cesium standard
         | definition.)                   user@debian:~$ qalc "$(date -d
         | 2022-01-01T00:00:00+0000 +%s)"/3600/24/365.25
         | ((1640995200 / 3600) / 24) / 365.25 = 52
         | 
         | Precisely 52 years' worth of seconds, which I guess also tells
         | me that there have been an integer number of leap years since
         | then. Either way, at 1666666666, 1666666666 seconds will have
         | passed rather than ...693 no? The extra 27 seconds are either
         | for keeping the sun at its zenith when the clock strikes noon
         | (not that that is even close to true where I live, it's off by
         | more than an hour) or for keeping winter in December. I can
         | never remember which, although we already have leap days for
         | keeping December in winter (in this hemisphere) so I think it
         | must be the 24-hour variable rotation speed thing.
         | 
         | If you want to define 1666666666 as having +27 seconds passed
         | since 1970 started, you would have to redefine the length of
         | the second every time a leap second is announced, I think.
         | 
         | I find this all tough to wrap my head around, though, so it can
         | very well be that I'm wrong here.
        
           | cygx wrote:
           | _Hmmm, am I wrong in understanding that, by pretending leap
           | seconds don 't exist, the unix time actually represents how
           | many seconds passed rather than what time time is now?_
           | 
           | It's the other way around: Unix time pretends every day has
           | exactly 86,400 seconds, and consequently, you can calculate
           | the current time of day by taking the respective modulus.
           | 
           | However, this comes at the cost that the difference between
           | two unix timestamps does not yield a duration in seconds in
           | general.
        
             | joshspankit wrote:
             | The choice to go along with leap seconds was one of the
             | bigger crimes against precision...
        
       | w00d3nsp4c3m4n wrote:
       | What is the exact unix time for "a cold day in hell"?
        
       | sieste wrote:
       | I won't upvote because it currently has 166 points.
        
       | dylan604 wrote:
       | Guess what else will happen, Unix timestamp will get to
       | 1,666,666,667, then 1,666,666,668, etc.
       | 
       | That actually looks like the rent on the old office facility at a
       | company I worked for, only a few decimal places to the left:
       | $16,666.66/month <shudder>
        
         | abruzzi wrote:
         | we humans tend to enjoy numerology for some reason. I remember
         | turning 55,555.5 miles on my motorcycle and stopping to take a
         | photo. It turns out I was on a small back road with a 55mph
         | speed limit, and I was close to a "Speed Limit 55",
         | unfortunately I could get that into the photo as well.
        
           | DavidSharff wrote:
           | It would have been a beautiful "footprints in the sand"
           | moment if you had turned off the ignition and carried the
           | motorcycle those last hundred feet for the photo.
        
           | r2_pilot wrote:
           | That's definitely some Law of 5's probability field
           | distortion there.
        
           | dylan604 wrote:
           | Seems like walking the bike to a better position to get that
           | photo might have been worth it
        
       | whalesalad wrote:
       | at ~10:57EST i'll be toasting this event with some kind of
       | intoxicant
        
         | macintux wrote:
         | EDT. It would be a shame if you missed it by an hour.
        
       | tingletech wrote:
       | I went to a party (I think EFF sponsored it) at golden gate park
       | when we hit 1,000,000,000
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | ariedro wrote:
         | Two days before 9/11 happens, talk about creepy numerology.
        
         | tiagod wrote:
         | I went and checked 2000000000. It will happen on
         | 2033-05-18T03:33:20.000Z (edited)
        
           | mzzter wrote:
           | Assuming 2000000000 is unix seconds, epochconverter.com
           | converts it to Wednesday, May 18, 2033 3:33:20 AM GMT.
        
             | tiagod wrote:
             | My bad, thank you for the correction. I had converted it
             | properly to 2033 but decided I wanted to switch to the
             | format with ms. Ended up adding a zero in the process
             | without checking the output (other than the .000 being
             | there). Edited
        
           | [deleted]
        
           | jtylr wrote:
           | I think you've added an extra 0 in there.
           | 
           | $ date -r 2000000000
           | 
           | Wed 18 May 2033 04:33:20 BST
           | 
           | $ date -r 20000000000
           | 
           | Tue 11 Oct 2603 12:33:20 BST
        
           | [deleted]
        
           | dis-sys wrote:
           | realizing that I would be long gone by 2603, your reply made
           | me really sad. then I realized that your calculation is
           | obviously wrong.
           | 
           | can I sue you for such such emotional distress?
        
           | hummusandsushi wrote:
           | i think you have an extraneous 0. It would not make sense for
           | it to take a longer time to get from 1,000,000,000 to
           | 2,000,000,000 than from the unix epoch to 1,000,000,000.
           | 
           | The time I think you meant to post is Wed May 18 2033
           | 03:33:20 UTC+0000 (Greenwich Mean Time).
        
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