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In about 2 hours it’s 1400000000 unix time

28 points by Profpatsch 12 years ago · 20 comments · 1 min read


date +"%s"

espadrine 12 years ago

Not sure why people suggest programs that people must run several times to view that timestamp, instead of solutions for everyone.

Here's a webpage for it: https://thefiletree.com/jan/html/time.html

jeffcox 12 years ago

Roughly every three years, the "exciting" change will be in 2033 when it rolls over into 2000000000.

archycockroach 12 years ago

  while true; do echo "I'll have a life in $(expr 1400000000 - $(date +"%s")) seconds" && sleep 1; done
mykhal 12 years ago

duplicity (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7736739)

csffsc 12 years ago

Basic countdown timer; tried to get that updating every second, what am I missing here?

http://jsfiddle.net/BPKdQ/

acegopher 12 years ago

I remember having recently survived Y2K having to go through all our code and databases again before UNIX time went from 9 to 10 digits in September of 2001.

chrisBob 12 years ago

Why does anyone care about a decimal milestone? I thought the excitement would be when you flip a big bit.

  • derekp7 12 years ago

    It's because I got 10 fingers on my hands. So that kind of makes it interesting, I guess.

  • ProfpatschOP 12 years ago

    Unix time is representing seconds, and seconds are a human measurement which use decimal notation.

    • robobro 12 years ago

      Seconds are base 60 actually, just like minutes

      • chrisBob 12 years ago

        I thought about that too, but then we would just be encouraging people to watch as the year wraps around at midnight on 1 January. That milestone is usually overshadowed by other things.

mcfstr 12 years ago

Hacky shell script...

while [ True ]; do sleep 1; clear; echo $(date +%s); done

terminado 12 years ago

  package com.example;
  
  /**
   * 	./Main/src/com/example/Main.java
   */
  public class Main {
  	
  	public static void main(String[] args) {
  		System.out.println(System.currentTimeMillis());
  	}
  
  }
mattwritescode 12 years ago

The title of this post seems to be rather out of date.

WillKirkby 12 years ago

For unix people:

watch -n 1 date -u +%s

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