An email titled "A Very Significant Event" found its way into my inbox two days ago. It certainly sounded important! But wait..... "We are approaching a significant time that will never happen again this Unix epoch, the time 1234567890 seconds since Jan 1 1970 UTC. In honor of the event, I think we need to celebrate.
The magic time in a more human form is Fri Feb 13 17:31:30 CST 2009 but I think we should show up a bit before that.
For those who want to monitor the current time in seconds since the epoch, "date +%s" will work in most UNIX (and cygwin) environments.
--Chris "
No. I am not kidding. This is the type of thing that engineers celebrate. If you have a unix machine, feel free to follow along with the 'perfect' time. If you don't have a unix machine, chances are that you don't really care about the perfect number of seconds since a perfectly arbitrary starting date and you can thank you lucky stars that you aren't a nerd.
Is anyone up for celebrating with Chris?
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