[HN Gopher] The Unix timestamp will begin with 17 this Tuesday
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The Unix timestamp will begin with 17 this Tuesday
Author : dezmou
Score : 106 points
Date : 2023-11-10 18:54 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.unixtimestamp.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.unixtimestamp.com)
| ta1243 wrote:
| I remember staying up late to see the tick to over from
| 999,999,999 to 1 billion, thinking "I'll remember this week my
| whole life". Little did I realise how 60 hours later the whole
| world would remember.
| petrikapu wrote:
| please explain
| charred_patina wrote:
| September 11th
| philshem wrote:
| 2001-09-09 01:46:40 UTC
| in_a_society wrote:
| > 2001-09-09T01:46:40.000+00:00
|
| 2 days later...
| jccooper wrote:
| 999999999 was on Sept 9, 2001
| pphysch wrote:
| 9/9, a remarkable coincidence
|
| If only it were year 1001 (binary 9)
| Ayesh wrote:
| ... which happens roughly every three years.
| asplake wrote:
| How so?
| stop50 wrote:
| 1 year are 31557600 seconds so roughly a third of 100 million
| seconds 1.7 billion seconds since the epoch is the next big
| rollover since 2020 and the 5th-last before 31 bits are not
| enough to hold the seconds since the epoch.
| dooglius wrote:
| See for yourself
|
| > date -d '@1600000000'
|
| > date -d '@1700000000'
| russellbeattie wrote:
| 5,148 days left until January 19, 2038.
|
| Assuming I live that long, the next day will be my 65th birthday.
| Just in time for digital Armageddon.
| shizcakes wrote:
| I went to a 1234567890 "gathering" in a hotel lobby in Boston in
| 2009
| cryptoz wrote:
| I remember that moment! I was out at a bar or something at the
| time but I was prepared and had my laptop with me haha. I was
| mashing the up arrow and enter to make sure I didn't miss it.
| alexpotato wrote:
| I was doing the late shift on a trading floor at a big bank.
|
| The head of the derivatives tech support team pointed out it
| was about to hit so we opened up a shell and did a "watch"
| command + outputting the "date" command in epoch seconds and
| watched it happen.
|
| Then we went back to working.
| hiAndrewQuinn wrote:
| Instant bookmark for me. I've always loved the idea of measuring
| time in computers by a single integer like the timestamp does,
| but it always seems like such a pain to work with outside of
| that.
| anyfoo wrote:
| Because the bases are all wrong. Common number bases are 10,
| 16, maybe 8 if you live in the 70s, and 2.
|
| Except for the utterly unwieldy binary, none of those bases
| adapt well to the bases used in representing time, which are
| mostly the (partially related) bases 60, 12, and, annoyingly,
| thirty-ish.
|
| So you always end up doing opaque arithmetic instead of "just
| looking at the digits" (which you still can do in decimal for
| century vs years for example, because we defined centuries to
| be exactly that).
| PrimeMcFly wrote:
| > I've always loved the idea of measuring time in computers by
| a single integer like the timestamp does
|
| Why?
| bloopernova wrote:
| This might interest you, if you haven't already seen it: Unix
| timestamp clock, in hex! https://retr0.id/stuff/2038/
| xavdid wrote:
| Perfect time to fire up https://datetime.store/ and try your luck
| on the perfect shirt!
| function_seven wrote:
| That website gonna crash so hard on Tuesday...
|
| "Boss! We're being dee dossed!"
|
| "No, son, it's Tuesday"
| mi_lk wrote:
| internet is really wonderful sometimes
| pests wrote:
| This reminds me of an idea I had - the 1BTC coffee mug - this
| was back during the early first rise to $20k.
| helsinki wrote:
| This is quite clever. I'm going to get one.
| perihelions wrote:
| The hectomegaseconds fly by so fast
|
| Edit: here was the front page of the New York Times at
| 1600000034,
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20200913122714/https://www.nytim...
|
| and here's 1500000301 and 1400000634, and 1300007806
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20170714024501/http://www.nytime...
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20140513170354/http://www.nytime...
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20110313091646/http://www.nytime...
| neogodless wrote:
| Starting Tue Nov 14 2023 22:13:20 GMT+0000 to be exact!
| susam wrote:
| Unix timestamp 1 600 000 000 was not too long ago. That was on
| 2020-09-13 12:26:40 UTC. Discussed on HN back then here:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24452885
|
| My own blog post here commemorating the event:
| https://susam.net/maze/unix-timestamp-1600000000.html
|
| Given that 100 000 000 seconds is approximately 3 years 2 months,
| we are going to see an event like this every few years.
|
| I believe the most spectacular event is going to be the Unix
| timestamp 2 000 000 000 which is still 91/2 years away:
| 2033-05-18 03:33:20 UTC. Such an event occurs only once every 33
| years 8 months approximately!
|
| By the way, here's 1700000000 on Python: $
| python3 -q >>> from datetime import datetime >>>
| datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1_700_000_000)
| datetime.datetime(2023, 11, 14, 22, 13, 20) >>>
|
| GNU date (Linux): $ date -ud @1700000000
| Tue Nov 14 22:13:20 UTC 2023
|
| BSD date (macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.): $ date
| -ur 1700000000 Tue 14 Nov 2023 22:13:20 UTC
| midasuni wrote:
| The spectacular events is in Jan 2038, when it reaches a nice
| round number of 2,147,483,648
| Gare wrote:
| Or it doesn't reach...
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
| scbrg wrote:
| > I believe the most spectacular event is going to be the Unix
| timestamp 2 000 000 000 which is still 91/2 years away:
| 2033-05-18 03:33:20 UTC. Such an event occurs only once every
| 33 years 8 months approximately!
|
| Egads! 33 years! I spent my late 90:ies mudding[0] and for some
| reason we had a lot of save files named by their epoch
| timestamp. When I ended up responsible for parts of the code
| base, I spent a lot of time dealing with those files, and they
| were all in the 800- or 900- million range. At some point I was
| pretty much able to tell at a glance roughly what date any
| number in that range corresponded to, within perhaps a few
| weeks.
|
| Weird environments foster weird super powers.
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon
| diego_sandoval wrote:
| It makes more sense to celebrate when a (relatively) high order
| bit changes from 0 to 1, not when the decimal representation
| changes.
| xyproto wrote:
| In relation to UNUX time; the 20000th UNIX day is at 2024-10-04
| (the 4th of October).
|
| It's a special day, since the next round UNIX day is 30000, at
| 2052-02-20.
|
| https://github.com/xyproto/ud/
| clarkmoody wrote:
| One of my favorite bits of Vinge's _A Deepness in the Sky_ is the
| use of base-10 time: ksec, Msec, etc. There is a nice time log
| scale with Earth time to base-10 time conversions.
| NoMoreNicksLeft wrote:
| I also like the Emergents. Liberal progressives creating a
| utopia. 100% employment, palaces made out of diamond for
| everyone.
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