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Countdown to timestamp 1,500M
- darrelld 9y agoWow, we're about to see the end of the 1,400M era. The 1,400M era saw me moving to the big city and getting pushed into project management. Hoping the 1,500M era is nothing but good memories of getting my hands dirty again.
- sofaofthedamned 9y agoGood point. It saw me gain a teenager (second hand) by virtue of being in a relationship with somebody and I love it. Looking forward to 1.5, where we'll hopefully get our house bought together and make a proper life.
- aleo 9y agowhat's a proper life?
- nitramm 9y agoBut be aware with your celebration. It can be slightly off due to leap seconds. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/327361/openbsd-6-0-ntpctl-says-clocked-synced-but-is-26-seconds-behind/327403#327403 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/327361/openbsd-6-0-...
- netcraft 9y agosome info to save someone else from having to look it up 1 400 000 000 was 5/13/2014, 11:53:20 AM 1 600 000 000 will be 9/13/2020, 7:26:40 AM 1 000 000 000 was 9/8/2001, 8:46:40 PM 2 000 000 000 will be 5/17/2033, 10:33:20 PM 2^32-1 (4 294 967 295) will be 2/7/2106, 12:28:15 AM 100 million seconds is a little over 3 years 1 billion seconds is almost 32 years.
- nitramm 9y agoWhat do you think are other interesting upcoming timestamps? - http://timestamp.online/countdown/1515151515 http://timestamp.online/countdown/1515151515 - http://timestamp.online/countdown/1579119751 http://timestamp.online/countdown/1579119751
- qb45 9y agohttp://timestamp.online/countdown/1610612736 http://timestamp.online/countdown/1610612736 Obviously. Programmers celebrating 1500000000 just make me sad.
- whoopdedo 9y agoAs I mentioned in the Reddit thread, everyone is looking at decimal but overlooking the (arguably more interesting) base-16 dates. Jan 13 19:13:30 2018 UTC will be 0x5A5A5A5A 0x66666666 will be Jun 10 2:35:18 2024 UTC We just missed a good one: Sep 22 2016 16:00:00 in base10 1474560000 in base16 0x57E40000
- JdeBP 9y agoSee the answers to the earlier time that you asked this question. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14759814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14759814
- ezequiel-garzon 9y agoAnd my favorite, π seconds is a nanocentury.
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- ethan_harris 9y agoAt the beginning of 1.4 I was just a freshman. Now, at the beginning of 1.5, I'm just a different kind of freshman.
- mkmk 9y agoOn a mac, you can keep track by opening the terminal and running the command "date +%s" (no quotes).
- nitramm 9y agoTo see the countdown, you can use: while true; do echo $((1500000000 - `date +"%s"`)); sleep 1; done
- isostatic 9y agoSleep 1 means that you could miss it, as the loop will take >1 second to run (the fork isn't instantaneous)
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- denysonique 9y agoOn UNIX likes systems*. Pro-tip: `watch -n 1 date +%s` will give you a live view of the timestamp
- sbierwagen 9y agoIf you have an X server installed, you can also get a windowed unix time clock: xclock -utime -update 1
- schoen 9y agoI tried this and noticed that you forgot -digital, which is apparently necessarily for -utime to have any effect.
- butisaidsudo 9y agoOohhh, didn't know about watch, thanks! If you want it to count down instead: $ watch -n1 'echo $((1500000000 - $(date +%s)))'
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- jerry40 9y agoWhich means we're not getting younger
- DamnInteresting 9y agoAnd only 7,494 days, 5 hours, 22 seconds until timestamp -2,147,483,648 (assuming your system uses the original Unix signed 32-bit integer time format). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
- impish19 9y agoThis is like New Year for geeks
- sandov 9y agoShouldn't we celebrate changes in the binary representations instead of decimal?. After all, that's how it's stored.
- ninju 9y agoThe website 'honors' the max time http://timestamp.online/countdown/2147483647 http://timestamp.online/countdown/2147483647 (it gives the same value for all URLs larger than it)
- WorldMaker 9y agoTo truly honor it, it should overflow into negative seconds before the epoch.
- jordigh 9y agoI remember the 1234567890 celebrations. I saved the IRC log from #1234567890 on Freenode.
- isostatic 9y agoI remember staying up late (uk time), watching the seconds on my 17" 4x3 cry running on Debian tick over to 1e9 back in September 2001, with slashdot open on the side. Now, 500 million seconds later I'll be watching the counter on an ubuntu laptop. Not quite as late as I'm in Washington DC on business, and I abandoned /. a couple of years ago. It amazes me how much changes, but also how little things change.
- bryanculver 9y agoWow, in the last 100M seconds I've gotten married, bought a house, had two kids, graduated college, started my own company. That's one heck of a metric.
- breadbox 9y agoBack in 2001 my social circle had a "gigasecond party" where we got together to cheer the moment of 1000000000. Like New Years, except that it was during the afternoon.
- DamnInteresting 9y agoMy wife and I calculated her 1 billionth second of life and observed the moment (I was already past mine when we thought of the idea). It occurs at 31.7097919838 years of age.
- niftich 9y agoAnd happy 1500000000!
- BaTnz 9y agoThat was epoch! ;)
- JdeBP 9y agoNoted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14758615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14758615 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14764504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14764504 .
- nitramm 9y agoThis post was for shirt time period first on hacker news. More than 2k people arrived during first hour. For more details you can check my analysis - https://goo.gl/iKM3kV https://goo.gl/iKM3kV
- nitramm 9y agoIt looks that next interesting timestamp will be in 4 months - http://timestamp.online/article/countdown-to-interesting-timestamps http://timestamp.online/article/countdown-to-interesting-tim... :)