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I remember staying up late to see the tick to over from 999,999,999 to 1 billion, thinking "I'll remember this week my whole life". Little did I realise how 60
by ta1243 3y ago
I remember staying up late to see the tick to over from 999,999,999 to 1 billion, thinking "I'll remember this week my whole life". Little did I realise how 60 hours later the whole world would remember.
- petrikapu 3y agoplease explain
- charred_patina 3y agoSeptember 11th
- philshem 3y ago2001-09-09 01:46:40 UTC
- in_a_society 3y ago> 2001-09-09T01:46:40.000+00:00 2 days later...
- jccooper 3y ago999999999 was on Sept 9, 2001
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- mongol 3y agoI didn't remember it was so close but those were the days I obsessively read Slashdot, which helped during 9/11, and which certainly covered the epoch event.
- _kst_ 3y agoTimestamp 1000000000 (Sat 2001-09-08 18:46:40 PDT) triggered a bug in the bug reporting system (Remedy) we were using at the time. The system stored timestamps as a string representing seconds since the epoch, but it assumed it would fit in 9 digits. At 1000000000, it started dropping the last digit, so it went back to Sat 1973-03-03 01:46:40 PST, advancing at 10% of real time. It was fixed fairly quickly.
- zoky 3y agoWow, that’s a really stupid bug, especially given the general level of awareness of the Y2K problem at the time the system probably was being built. Whoever the hell looked at a 9 digit timestamp that started with a 9 and said “nah, we’re never gonna need more than 9 digits to store that” should have their programming license revoked.