In about 2 hours it’s 1400000000 unix time

28 points by Profpatsch 12 years ago | 20 comments

date +"%s"

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

acegopher 12 years ago | |

The MOST exciting time will be when it hits 2147483647.

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

robobro 12 years ago | |

If you use Windows, UNIX time probably isn't very relevant to you.

mykhal 12 years ago |

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

archycockroach 12 years ago |

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

csffsc 12 years ago |

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

http://jsfiddle.net/BPKdQ/

CornishPasty 12 years ago | |

It should be setInterval(updateClock, 1000) not setInterval(updateClock(), 1000)

csffsc 12 years ago | | |

Thanks!

http://jsfiddle.net/BPKdQ/1

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.

Profpatsch 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

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());
  	}
  
  }

mcfstr 12 years ago |

Hacky shell script...

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

mattwritescode 12 years ago |

The title of this post seems to be rather out of date.

Profpatsch 12 years ago | |

6000 seconds. That’s still about 2 hours. :)

WillKirkby 12 years ago |

For unix people:

watch -n 1 date -u +%s

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