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Unix Time 1500M – Friday July 14 02:40UTC
- tbrock 9y agoWhy is this milestone important?
- leggomylibro 9y agoLots of 0s in a row.
- repsilat 9y ago"A number" that a lot of people use and recognise as "one, four, then a lot of other digits" will become noticeably different. Do not adjust your set.
- mulmen 9y agoBecause life is short.
- flukus 9y agoBecause many of us won't make it to 2 billion.
- aaron695 9y ago15 years time?
- gattilorenz 9y agoSurely you don't expect everyone living now to be still alive in 15 years? ;) But yeah, it might just indicate that parent got the ballpark estimate wrong... Unix time is not the most human-friendly format.
- pjc50 9y agoI'm hoping to use fixing the 2^31 bugs as my retirement plan.
- gridscomputing 9y agoyawn. is this the HN equivalent of a 4chan "GET"?
- gciruelos 9y agoHN's "GET" would be when tesla's stock price hits 0.00000$
- Cshelton 9y agoTime stamp and set a reminder for 7-10 years from now for this comment: Tesla will be the biggest company in the world. See you in 7-10 years when you remember this comment.
- Spivak 9y agoThe world? That's quite a tall order for a company with such a small product line. They would have to compete with companies like Exxon which have 250B in yearly revenue.
- avarun 9y ago...No, they'd be competing with Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook, which all crossed Exxon a long while ago.
- lifeisstillgood 9y agoGoogle does not have 250B revenue. Far from it (50B a few years back). Apple is in the top ten but then it sells billions of expensive phones. Amazon barely scrapes in the top fifty, while Walmart is number one (Costco,CVS and Kroger easily beating Amazon) Being a "normal" bricks and mortar company does give more turnover power it seems. Globally. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_revenue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by...
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- dmihal 9y agoWhat's everybody doing to celebrate?
- dvanduzer 9y agoI'm going to burn whatever incense is appropriate for ensuring my value to society by the end of the 32 bit Epoch.
- CodeWriter23 9y agoHonestly, I'm going to shrug my shoulders. Not to dampen anyone else's celebrations and enthusiasm. That's just how I am about these kind of things. Like on most Birthdays, the orbital relationship of Earth to Sun isn't even within millions of miles of when I was born, so I'm like "meh". Except for my DD's birthday, but that's because it's special to her.
- Sleeep 9y agoWork is doing cupcakes! I can't participate because I will be at a funeral though. :(
- schoen 9y agoI remember having a party for the billion seconds, which was on September 8, 2001 -- then overshadowed in my memory by the September 11 attack less than three days later. I also remember another party for Unix time 1234567890, back in 2009, which got an impressive turnout. https://www.flickr.com/photos/estro/3304453623/in/photolist-631bWk-635qTm https://www.flickr.com/photos/estro/3304453623/in/photolist-... https://www.flickr.com/photos/briankusler/3278099542/in/photolist-5ZF7MC https://www.flickr.com/photos/briankusler/3278099542/in/phot... https://www.flickr.com/photos/estro/3305280994/in/photolist-631bWk-635qTm https://www.flickr.com/photos/estro/3305280994/in/photolist-... At that party, I made some thyme tea, in honor of time_t. (Later on I learned that thyme tea is actually a thing... I felt like I was just making it up!)
- joshmn 9y agoI was just typing in random times and saw that it came eerily close to 9/11. Kind of crept me out.
- ianai 9y agoBut seriously thyme tea sounds pretty awful.
- andrei512 9y agoThere are many kinds of thyme - one is good for tea (Thymus vulgaris) - but they get confused a lot.
- sdoering 9y agoNot only does it taste good (what might get debated) but it is said to help against the common cold and stuff like that. Is being used for centuries now as the "poor man's antibiotics".
- schoen 9y agoA friend later on bought me an Arabic "wild thyme tea", which is labeled as زعتر بري in Arabic. According to Wikipedia, this is thymus serpyllum, which is different from the culinary thyme that we use in the west (although Wikipedia says that kind of thyme is used for tea in Armenia). One more potential source of confusion is that Wikipedia's article on za'atar says that زعتر بري could also be another Middle Eastern thyme (thymus capitatus), or even origanum vulgare (oregano)! So I'm not positive exactly which herb is in this Arabic tea, but I do like it better than the thyme tea that I made for that party. Edit: it's this one: http://karabetian.com/food/tea-and-coffee/tazah-wild-thyme-tea-bags.html http://karabetian.com/food/tea-and-coffee/tazah-wild-thyme-t..., although I'm not sure I would be that comfortable giving my credit card to this web site. I'll see if it's available in my local Arabic market.
- ben174 9y agodate +%s To see current time
- smnscu 9y agoI used to find this syntax opaque/unfriendly until I simply looked into it. Here's a helpful cheat sheet for what follows the "+": https://gist.github.com/nikreiman/1408399 https://gist.github.com/nikreiman/1408399
- rdtsc 9y agoI am irrationally excited about this. I suspect it's because now I'll be able to quickly glance at timestamps, say in the logs or in data records, and estimate the time better without having to use a script to translate it.
- corndoge 9y agoare you being serious edit: to elaborate, how does this help at all, you can memorize the current offset to as many decimals as you find convenient and do this already, a zero pad is nice but the # zeroes that make it easy to read for people who aren't Ramanujan will last for maybe a week
- NickSharp 9y agoWhen I watch the constant progress of Unix time and milestones like this, I really feel the passage of time in way I don't otherwise. Sometimes it freaks me out.
- rdtsc 9y agoAh interesting. I agree. Wonder if it is because typical 12 or 24 hour clock resets so we sort of get to "try again" during a new day. A continuously increasing value that never resets just has a more ominous feel to it.
- adrianN 9y agoIt could be worse, it could be counting down.
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoI thought of drawing a life-to-page calendar on my lounge room wall. Decided against it as it would make it obvious how many days I've wasted and how few I have left. Maybe that's all the more reason to do it.
- 9y ago
- dopeboy 9y agoFor the bay area crowd - is there anything going on to celebrate?
- tbking 9y agoI've seen the Unix timestamp as One Four something since I started active coding since 2015. So I'm excited about this.
- inertial 9y agoMarked my calendar for subsequent dates.. > date -ud @2000000000 Wed May 18 03:33:20 UTC 2033
- tess0r 9y agoThis remembers me of "primetime" a "clock" which draws a green bar every time the timestamp is a prime. https://tessi.github.io/primetime https://tessi.github.io/primetime Did it in my student years, looks awful today, but I was proud back then ;) edit: I just remembered that you can give it a timestamp to display (instead of just displaying the current time). Unix Time 1,500M would be https://tessi.github.io/primetime/?t=1500000000 https://tessi.github.io/primetime/?t=1500000000 and is (obviously) not a prime number.
- flukus 9y agoThat's oddly compelling to watch. And there's that human urge to try and see a pattern in the prime groupings.
- tess0r 9y agoYou can fiddle with the displayed time (by editing the url) -- it's fun to see that (very) early timestamps have much greater chance to be a prime number. Also, sometimes, you can find "twin primes". https://tessi.github.io/primetime/?t=1500000000 https://tessi.github.io/primetime/?t=1500000000 has such a twin-pair in the center of the screen (the twins are 1499999927 and 1499999929).
- sdoering 9y agoI was interested when 10^n events would happen and ran in a nice litte bug. I like to believe that this marks the end of all times: https://tessi.github.io/primetime/?t=10000000000000 https://tessi.github.io/primetime/?t=10000000000000
- XaspR8d 9y agoJavascript's maximum date is Sat, 13 Sep 275760 (=8640000000000), so you've actually gone some ~43,000 years past the end of all time.
- plq 9y ago> looks awful today I don't know what you don't like about it but I think not only that it looks great, but also to me that's a design that's got character.
- squarefoot 9y agoAlso, the PI date (3141592653) goes straight to Sunday July 21 2069; that's exactly 100 years from the 1st human step on the moon.
- vacri 9y agoI'm going to be 1.5B seconds old! I mean, whenever $random_website demands my birthday, they get Start of Epoch. Easy fake birthday to remember :)
- peter_retief 9y agoMy cars odometer is at 99910km's so by tomorrow I should be at 100000km's, not quite date -d @1500000000
- simias 9y agoI don't get it, what's so special about 0x59682f00? 0x60000000, now that's a nice round number. See you on January 14th 2021!
- protomyth 9y agoSimias, we are surrounded by base 10 lovers in a binary world. These are the same people who gave us terabyte hard drives with 1,000,000,000,000 bytes which doesn't even make sense with sector sizes of 512 and 4096 bytes. I too will celebrate the hex flip and not some shady base 10 shenanigans.
- _lce0 9y ago> Friday May 15 2015 02:09:25 GMT That was 0x55555555 or b01010101010101010101010101010101
- vectorEQ 9y ago5.0E+96 count down to that lol... funny site tho :D for some reason i approve of this.
- nitramm 9y agoIf you want to avoid converting seconds into something more human readable, you can use http://timestamp.online/countdown/1500000000 http://timestamp.online/countdown/1500000000 What is the next timestamp you are looking for? http://timestamp.online/countdown/1515151515 http://timestamp.online/countdown/1515151515 or is there something better sooner?
- JdeBP 9y agoThis one is sooner. jdebp % echo @400000005a00000000000000|TZ=UTC tai64nlocal 2017-11-06 06:23:23.000000000 jdebp % This one is slightly later. jdebp % echo @400000005a5a5a5a005a5a5a|TZ=UTC tai64nlocal 2018-01-13 19:12:53.005921370 jdebp %
- JdeBP 9y agoAlthough the point where we reach 1.5 Ms since the Epoch actually occurs slightly earlier at 2017-07-14 02:39:33 +0000 , as can be seen on a system using Arthur David Olson's "right" timezones. jdebp % TZ=right/UTC date +"%s %F %T %z" -d "@1500000000" 1500000000 2017-07-14 02:39:33 +0000 jdebp % * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/327403/5132 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/327403/5132 The timestamp in the headline is actually 1500000027 seconds since the Epoch.
- d0mine 9y agoPOSIX time doesn't count leap seconds (i.e., "seconds since the Epoch" are not actually elapsed seconds) and therefore POSIX time 1.5e6 is 2017-07-14T02:40:00 (UTC scale) exactly right/UTC uses 1970-01-01 00:00:10 (TAI scale) epoch (it is slightly different from 1970-01-01 00:00:00 (UTC scale) -- the Epoch) 2017-07-14 02:39:33 (UTC scale) is 2017-07-14T02:40:10 (TAI scale) i.e., it is 1.5e9 seconds since the epoch used for "right" timezones, not the Epoch.
- JdeBP 9y agoNo. Read the output of the date command and the aforementioned Stack Exchange answer again. The Epoch was the same physical second in both the "right" and the "posix" systems. It is 1.5 Gs (not Ms as I mistyped) since that second at 2017-07-14 02:39:33 +0000. The fact that you've got a difference of 37 between your two values should be a clue that you've got this wrong. The current difference between UTC and TAI-10 is 27 seconds. Again, read the Stack Exchange answer for details. And 1.5 Gs since the Epoch will be 2017-07-14 02:39:33 +0000 on both "posix" and "right" systems. A "right" wall clock reads the same as a "posix" wall clock, except at leap seconds of course. 2017-07-14 02:39:33 "posix" is the same point in time as 2017-07-14 02:39:33 "right": 1.5 Gs since the Epoch. It is not the same point in time as 2017-07-14 02:40:10 "right"/"posix", which is 1500000037 seconds since the Epoch. jdebp % TZ=right/UTC date +"%s %F %T %z" -d "@1500000037" 1500000037 2017-07-14 02:40:10 +0000 jdebp % * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/294715/5132 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/294715/5132
- d0mine 9y ago
- rastapasta 9y ago2147483647 (2^31-1) is worth watching as well. A second later the first bit of any timestamp still handled as signed int32 will flip and the ride into the past begins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
- amelius 9y agoFor anyone wondering, an increment like this happens about every three years.
- wincent 9y agoObligatory link to macOS "epoch flip clock" screensaver: https://github.com/chrstphrknwtn/epoch-flip-clock https://github.com/chrstphrknwtn/epoch-flip-clock
- Sir_Substance 9y agoI get that little popup on this website saying "you agree to our use of cookies to give you the best possible experience". Why do I need cookies to maximize my unix time experience, exactly?
- jonstokes 9y agoThis page answers a question I was thinking about in the shower this morning: what is the latest date (as a UNIX timestamp) you can store in a regular postgres integer column, which has a max value of 2147483647 per the postgres docs. It turns out that the answer is January 19 2038 03:14:07 GMT. I'm working on a project that involves sync, and we're keeping track of action numbers by incrementing the last action number, but for various reasons I was thinking, "what if we replaced the action_number field with the corresponding timestamp integer?" Then I began to ponder which integer format to use -- if I could get a way with just postgres integer, or if I needed to stop up to bigint. It turns out I should probably step up to bigint if I do this :-) Anyway, I could've just done this in ruby, but by the time I saw this I had forgotten I was thinking about it, and this reminded me.
- NoNotTheDuo 9y agoYou've inadvertently discovered the "2038 Problem"[0]. This is the next iteration of the Y2K bug. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
- jonstokes 9y agoWell well... TIL If I thought we'd all still be here in 2038 I'd have something new to worry about :-/
- jlgaddis 9y agocf. Year 2038 Problem [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
- Pete_D 9y agoA calendar of the upcoming 100M anniversaries: $ for x in {15..21} > do > printf '%2d %s\n' $x "$( > env TZ=UTC date -d "@$(($x*100000000))" > )"; done 15 Fri 14 Jul 02:40:00 UTC 2017 16 Sun 13 Sep 12:26:40 UTC 2020 17 Tue 14 Nov 22:13:20 UTC 2023 18 Fri 15 Jan 08:00:00 UTC 2027 19 Sun 17 Mar 17:46:40 UTC 2030 20 Wed 18 May 03:33:20 UTC 2033 21 Fri 18 Jul 13:20:00 UTC 2036 It's neat how they seem to roll around every pi years. >>> 1e8 / (3600 * 24 * 365.25) 3.168808781402895 >>> math.pi 3.141592653589793