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- accn112, on 02/14/2009, -6/+651Kids, back in 1234567890, we had to TYPE to use our computers.
- Nayson, on 02/14/2009, -5/+481Im old enough to remember when 12:34:56 7/8/90 was newsworthy. These new fangled internet dates confuse me. :(
- alexp2ad, on 02/14/2009, -4/+473Kinda sad that you celebrated the Unix timestamp...... in Windows.
- elborro44, on 02/14/2009, -2/+198not for long, ive heard the macbook wheel is droppin soon
- Irlande, on 02/14/2009, -14/+164I have no idea where this time came from, or how it works.
But, hoorah? - cloudberries, on 02/14/2009, -5/+145Great party guys! See you in 2345678901!
- Daemastrius, on 02/14/2009, -4/+122Epoch win?
- teh_techie, on 02/14/2009, -3/+114I wish everyone could just agree on a standard for time/date format...
Like YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS.
At least that way it always starts with the largest measure of time, going downwards... - ehaugan, on 02/14/2009, -22/+125I dont get it, and I'm glad I don't!
- Benno, on 02/14/2009, -2/+96celebrating the sequential unix epoch in windows is like celebrating Hanukkah in a bacon shop or talk like a pirate day in ninja garb.
- gllopc, on 02/14/2009, -4/+92A little explanation:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_ ...
"Ready to party like it's 1234567890? Computer lovers certainly are.
That’s because at precisely 23:31:30 GMT tonight (Friday), the ten-digit clock used by Unix computers - which includes the servers that run everything from the internet to air traffic control - will display all ten decimal digits in sequence."
"Computers count time differently. They simply count the seconds from “Co-ordinated Standard Time”, or to human beings, the seconds elapsed from midnight, January 1, 1970 - the digital equivalent of the birth of Christ. Unix time is how many seconds there have been since then (not including leap seconds, in case you were wondering)" - dmbfan2007, on 02/14/2009, -3/+83false. you won't have kids.
- badenglishihave, on 02/14/2009, -8/+86*sniff*... it's beautiful...
- wolfing, on 02/14/2009, -6/+71For most people in the world, that was about a month later (we use DD/MM/YY format) :)
- Snoogs, on 02/14/2009, -1/+60We were supposed to have 13 months in a year but it was 'unlucky'... Look at it this way--> 13 months x 28 days (one full lunar cycle) is 364. Add one day for one ***** rediculous worldwide party, and we start over with the new year. The lunar cycle would reset every 28 years, and we'd probably have some kind of animal or zodiac thing based on the number 28... Oh, and girls menstruate on the lunar cycle, so we wouldn't have to count back from 31 three months ago to figure out if that's the reason your gf is being bitchy. Same day each month.
- Battlecry, on 02/14/2009, -0/+54I'd say that 19 is older than half the people on digg.
- jonstewart24, on 02/14/2009, -24/+76If our kids can still afford computers....
- matroska1, on 02/14/2009, -0/+47You have to use your HANDS? That's like a baby's toy!
- Strongo, on 02/14/2009, -6/+46my kids will beat up your kids....STEVE HOLT
- ligyron, on 02/14/2009, -0/+39And it also looks like he wasn't even paying attention when it happened. 17 seconds later he finally takes the screen shot.
I'm beginning to wonder if he actually cared about this event at all! - eanbowman, on 02/14/2009, -2/+40Time to nerdify your mind. It's the number of seconds since the epoch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_time
"System time is measured by a system clock, which is typically implemented as a simple count of the number of ticks that have transpired since some arbitrary starting date, called the epoch. For example, Unix and POSIX-compliant systems encode system time as the number of seconds elapsed since the start of the epoch at 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Z. Microsoft Windows counts the number of 100-nanosecond ticks since 1601-01-01 00:00:00 Z as reckoned in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, but returns the current time to the nearest millisecond." - sensualnapes, on 02/14/2009, -3/+40i can't imagine a more boring story to tell to a child.
- Nayson, on 02/14/2009, -1/+37I know, I am from England. I wrote 7th August, not 8th July. ;)
- jenel, on 02/14/2009, -0/+34HEY MCFLY!
- Benno, on 02/14/2009, -0/+32I can't wait! *cryo freezes self*
- Erik1421, on 02/14/2009, -9/+38To all of those calling him nerd....
"“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.” - Bill Gates - fluxion, on 02/14/2009, -0/+28this ***** is epoch yo
- Zammo, on 02/14/2009, -2/+29y2k38 we'll see what happens then....
- DBeta, on 02/14/2009, -1/+25andrew456: That seems logical, except when it comes to sorting things by date. If you have a huge list of dates, all the 12:00AMs would get lumped together. If it starts with the biggest number first, it would sort in correct order.
- inactive, on 02/14/2009, -1/+23yes the economical system is completely coming to an end. we have been able to overcome financial problems for over 200 years, but this one recession will be the end of us. computers are still getting cheaper, but just because we are going through a recession now, future generations will be living in caves, and wont even know what a computer is.
- hpfreak26, on 02/14/2009, -0/+21Computers are freak'n cheap now. The recession does wonders for technology, for some reason.
- Itamae, on 02/14/2009, -0/+20We had champagne.
... really. - dani8559, on 02/14/2009, -0/+19and seriously, who runs something so trivial as root?
- sexybobo, on 02/14/2009, -0/+17Always remember time started 1970-01-01 00:00:00 anything your parents might say happened before that time is a lie.
- iFrix, on 02/14/2009, -0/+17It'l never reach 9999999999, because it's an integer.... so it'll stop at 2 147 483 648 (=2^31). but by that point we'll have switched to a 64 bit number that'll last for another thousand year.
- Dumbledorito, on 02/14/2009, -0/+17Amazing! That's the same code I have on my luggage!
- xrEE, on 02/14/2009, -4/+20Joy for geeks yesterday because of 1234567890 Unix time, lasting disappointment today because of the 0 partners on Valentines day.
- innovati, on 02/14/2009, -4/+19@Nayson: it's not an internet date, it's a UNIX time anniversary. Unix time begins counting in seconds from the year 1970.
Sounds much older than internets - murdockat, on 02/14/2009, -1/+16They will need to move to a 64 bit integer. It is similar in some respects to the Y2K bug.
- a3r0, on 02/14/2009, -0/+14The problem occurs at 2147483648. Hope that everyone's moved to 64 bit ints by then!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem - Daemastrius, on 02/14/2009, -0/+14No
- thejokell, on 02/14/2009, -3/+17Should have sent... a poet...
- Lanlost, on 02/14/2009, -2/+16I'm sorry... while the geek in me thought this was cool, I'm not really sure I'll be getting a tattoo or anything.
"Hey son! I've been waiting my whole life for this moment."
"Shut up dad.."
"='(" - Ellrick, on 02/14/2009, -4/+17lol like a nerd that posts about unix time is gonna have kids to tell anything.
- one1plus1one, on 02/15/2009, -1/+14Ya, and back in 1234567890, dogs did not have the right to vote. Cats were only beginning to get noticed on the Internet, as creatures worthy of our respect.
You see, son, that was all back in the days before the great feline-canine revolution... long before that fool in a lab decided to edit their genome and enhance their intelligence.
It was long before any self respecting parent would approve of their daughter dating a modified chimpanzee...
And long before T-Rex could even be conceived as pets or guard animals...
Who then could have forseen the first canine/feline presidential/vice presidential ticket (Big-Boy and Socks)?
Who could have known that the direct descendant of Bill Clinton's cat, would one day go on to hold office and power in that same White-House?
Who then could have forseen the day when... ok, I'll stop there. - gordonj, on 02/14/2009, -0/+13What the hell happened to 1234567888?
- fajitamelt, on 02/14/2009, -0/+13@innovati and Chris_F
The Internet and World Wide Web are two different things. Gosh. - netneutrality, on 02/14/2009, -2/+14See you guys again @ 2 billion. (Wednesday, May 18 2033 @ 03:33:20 UTC)
- jabelli, on 02/14/2009, -0/+12They're already in the process of converting to a 64-bit signed integer. MSVC defaults to a 64-bit time_t; you have to #define _USE_32BIT_TIME_T to force it to use 32-bit values.
2345678901 using 64-bit time_t is 2044-05-01T01:28:21Z. -
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