Unix Time Conundrum

This has been buzzing all over the tech forums:

"At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890. Where will you be at this momentous second?" - from Bell Labs

And quoting Jon maddog Hall:

This is up-next Friday, February 13th at 18:31:30 EST. If you want to find out what time it will be in your local time, try this Perl script courtesy of Matias Palomec:

perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'

Now if there was any reason to fear Friday the 13th, I think this is it.

That many numbers sequentially in a row representative of time?

Who knows what will stop working?

Will lex(1) cease to work?

Will yacc(1)s?

Everywhere a revolt?

Will the rapture be upon us?

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As the only Unix based system I have to play around is an Eee PC 701 with the latest distribution of Ubuntu Linux for it, I will stay put and check it out while that milestone in POSIX Time is reached.

For the rest of the world, a quick and dirty way to get into the action is to point your browser to:

Cool Epoch Countdown

See you all on Saturday!
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