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Re: Countdown to timestamp 1,500M

#42

Post by profmonocle »

mulmen wrote: post #39
sector777 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember 1e+9 because it shifted a log file over by 1 character. And less than a week later I was out of a job (travel industry).

Was that a coincidence? Please don't leave us hanging.

1 billion Unix time was September 8, 2001.

Re: Countdown to timestamp 1,500M

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Post by ipince »

mulmen wrote: post #39
sector777 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember 1e+9 because it shifted a log file over by 1 character. And less than a week later I was out of a job (travel industry).

Was that a coincidence? Please don't leave us hanging.

Don't you see? Whether one event led to another is not important. We don't need to know for sure. It's like the end of Inception.

Re: Countdown to timestamp 1,500M

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Post by Entangled »

netcraft wrote: post #5

some info to save someone else from having to look it up 1 400 000 000 was 5/13/2014, 11:53:20 AM 1 600 000 000 will be 9/13/2020, 7:26:40 AM 1 000 000 000 was 9/8/2001, 8:46:40 PM 2 000 000 000 will be 5/17/2033, 10:33:20 PM 2^32-1 (4 294 967 295) will be 2/7/2106, 12:28:15 AM 100 million seconds is a little over 3 years 1 billion seconds is almost 32 years.

I've been programming for a billion seconds since the timestamp was in 500 M. Good ol days with Turbo Pascal and Clipper Summer 85, now it's all about Swift and Kotlin.

Time flies.

Re: Countdown to timestamp 1,500M

#48

Post by thaumasiotes »

ezequiel-garzon wrote: post #20
netcraft wrote: post #5

some info to save someone else from having to look it up 1 400 000 000 was 5/13/2014, 11:53:20 AM 1 600 000 000 will be 9/13/2020, 7:26:40 AM 1 000 000 000 was 9/8/2001, 8:46:40 PM 2 000 000 000 will be 5/17/2033, 10:33:20 PM 2^32-1 (4 294 967 295) will be 2/7/2106, 12:28:15 AM 100 million seconds is a little over 3 years 1 billion seconds is almost 32 years.

And my favorite, π seconds is a nanocentury .

How so?

I had assumed there would be an error in there about forgetting that years don't have an integral number of days, but even at exactly 36500 days per century, a nanocentury is still over 3.15 seconds.

Re: Countdown to timestamp 1,500M

#49

Post by paulsutter »

ezequiel-garzon wrote: post #20
netcraft wrote: post #5

some info to save someone else from having to look it up 1 400 000 000 was 5/13/2014, 11:53:20 AM 1 600 000 000 will be 9/13/2020, 7:26:40 AM 1 000 000 000 was 9/8/2001, 8:46:40 PM 2 000 000 000 will be 5/17/2033, 10:33:20 PM 2^32-1 (4 294 967 295) will be 2/7/2106, 12:28:15 AM 100 million seconds is a little over 3 years 1 billion seconds is almost 32 years.

And my favorite, π seconds is a nanocentury .

Well one second is a microfortnight

Re: Countdown to timestamp 1,500M

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Post by tempay »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #48
ezequiel-garzon wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And my favorite, π seconds is a nanocentury .

How so? I had assumed there would be an error in there about forgetting that years don't have an integral number of days, but even at exactly 36500 days per century, a nanocentury is still over 3.15 seconds.

nano century = 100 * 365.25 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1e-9 = 3.15576

(nano century - π)/π = 0.45%

So a nano century is equal to π seconds within half a percent which is more than good enough for casual uses as an approximation.

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