I make a bold prediction that we'll run out of digits rather soon.
2037 is a potential overflow, I believe. I imagine only pre 2000 systems would likely be affected.
The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday
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Re: The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday
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Re: The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday
#13The exact time this happens is Sun, 13 Sep 2020 12:26:40 +0000 (you can paste 1600000000 in 'make another conversion')
For those as oblivious to +0000 as I am, and wondering if that is GMT or UTC:
- GMT is a time zone officially used in some European and African countries. The time can be displayed using both the 24-hour format (0 - 24) or the 12-hour format (1 - 12 am/pm).
- UTC is not a time zone, but a time standard that is the basis for civil time and time zones worldwide. This means that no country or territory officially uses UTC as a local time.
Re: The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
For those wondering, it’s roughly 1157.4 days (38 months)[0] [0]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1e8+seconds+in+months
The fact that it happens so consistently indicates it is some kind of conspiracy.
Big Gravity is conspiring to keep us all down
Re: The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday
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Re: The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday
#16I make a bold prediction that we'll run out of digits rather soon.
2037 is a potential overflow, I believe. I imagine only pre 2000 systems would likely be affected.
Only pre 2000 systems? I'd love to live in your dream world.
Last I looked, plenty of fixes were trickling into the kernel in 2014. I wonder how many of those made the long backport to stable.
Let alone all those 2.6 kernels (and older!) in the wild. And all your 32-bit devices are probably gonna have a bad time.
Re: The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday
#17There's a nice countdown here: https://epochconverter.com/countdown
I quite like the Mayan counting system, so I made a little module that does the conversion and makes SVG's, this[1] is the only thing I've used it for so far, though.
[1]https://wolfram74.github.io/ArabIntToMayaInt/countdown.html
Re: The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday
#18The crazy thing is there has only been 1.6 billion seconds since 1970. There have been more babies since 1970 than there have been seconds. Which is crazy.
Back then, Earth's population was on 3.7 billion. Now it's 7.8 billion. That means that (ignoring deaths) 2.5 babies have been born for each unix second. Or roughly 1 baby every 400 milliseconds.
Re: The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
For those wondering, it’s roughly 1157.4 days (38 months)[0] [0]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1e8+seconds+in+months
The fact that it happens so consistently indicates it is some kind of conspiracy.
Almost like a bunch of folks worked together to make this happen, but only a relatively small number worldwide know who they are.