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happy 1_700_000_000 everyone! (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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a rare Unix timestamp occurred yesterday.
next one (1_800_000_000) will be in 2027.

edit: seems like Lemmy doesn't like video links in pictures field. so pasted it below.

video recording the moment in terminal

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I've been using Linux since 1996 and remember when time_t was less than a billion. I guess I've found a new way to date myself. Slightly interestingly I thought, 1 billion was a couple of days before 9/11 which some have said defines the modern era or epoch.