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The 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.
Also, see: https://www.worldometers.info/
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 exact time this happens is Sun, 13 Sep 2020 12:26:40 +0000 (you can paste 1600000000 in 'make another conversion')
`watch -n 1 date +%s` Wish I knew when 1234567890 happened, I was too dumb back then.
Coincidentally I consider this the end of "golden age" of the internet which ended as soon as the iPhone and smartphones in general got mainstream and everything moved to centralized services.
But there really is no reason to get rid of the unix timestamp as a measure of time and this measure may stay around for a long time. This may mean that people in the future might consider 1970 as year zero where modern civilization began.
It is going to be at 2020-09-13 12:26:40 UTC. Python: $ python3 -q >>> from datetime import datetime >>> datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1_600_000_000) datetime.datetime(2020, 9, 13, 12, 26, 40) GNU date (Linux): $ date -ud @1600000000 Sun Sep 13 12:26:40 UTC 2020 BSD date (macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.): $ date -ur 1600000000 Sun Sep 13 12:26:40 UTC 2020 All such dates (in UTC) until the end of the current century: $ pyth…
(Get-Date "1/1/1970").AddSeconds(1600000000).ToUniversalTime()
(Get-Date "1/1/1970").AddSeconds(1600000000).ToLocalTime()When we one day become a space faring civilization we will probably stop using the gregorian calendar because why would you use that on say Mars? But there really is no reason to get rid of the unix timestamp as a measure of time and this measure may stay around for a long time. This may mean that people in the future might consider 1970 as year zero where modern civilization began.
When we one day become a space faring civilization we will probably stop using the gregorian calendar because why would you use that on say Mars? But there really is no reason to get rid of the unix timestamp as a measure of time and this measure may stay around for a long time. This may mean that people in the future might consider 1970 as year zero where modern civilization began.