5 Nov
2018
5 Nov
'18
12:35 a.m.
On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 7:52:03 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
UNIX was half a billion (500000000) seconds old on Tue
Nov 5 00:53:20
1985 GMT (measuring since the time(2) epoch).
-- Andy Tannenbaum
Hmmm... According to my rough calculations, it hit a billion (US) seconds
around 2000.
Yes, on 9 September 2001 (two days before *the* 11 September), and on
14 July last year it hit 1500000000 seconds:
$ TZ=UTC date -r 1000000000
Sun 9 Sep 2001 01:46:40 UTC
$ TZ=UTC date -r 1500000000
Fri 14 Jul 2017 02:40:00 UTC
Greg
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