[LUG] 1 (Silly US)Billion seconds since the epoch approaches.

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:46:40 GMT (02:46:40 BST) on this Sunday (9th Sept 2001) morning, the
unix date will become 1000000000, adding an extra digit for the first time
in *ages* :).

The unix date being the number of seconds since the epoch date (1 Jan
1970 I think)

Could cause all sorts of fun apparantly.

To get the current date:

[alex@xxxxx alex]$ date +%s
999853190

Alex


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