Re: The magic time of 1234567890



On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:40:47 +0100, Mark Madsen wrote:

It was just pointed out to me by a friend that in roughly an hour from
the time of my posting this, the Unix time will read exactly:

1234567890

At this time I get:

msm@blackbox:~$ date +%s
1234561167

Yes, this is truly an Epoch event. ;)

You can watch it count down with this command:

watch -n 1 date +%s

Or if you prefer a webbish look:

http://coolepochcountdown.com/


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