The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday

Post by throw0101a » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 6:24 PM UTC

divbzero wrote: post #55

shantara wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In "Deepness in the Sky" a spaceship's computer is still running on Unix time many thousands years into the future. It is generally believed that the calendar starts with the first Moon landing, and only the main character as a "programmer-archeologist" discovers a small difference between it and true Unix time 0.

Little is known about “Unix” but it is believed he or she was a charismatic spiritual leader who brought hope, healing, and comfort to countless humans on Earth and inspired numerous disciples including “BSD”, “Linux”, and “System V”.

Post by dylan604 » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 6:30 PM UTC

BoppreH wrote: post #46

jezze wrote: post #37

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.

There is a very good reason to eventually abandon it: leap seconds. Unix time goes back one second whenever there is a leap second on Earth. It's extremely weird and IMHO completely ruins the purpose of a timestamp, but it's a compromise for backwards compatibility, since Unix time was created before leap seconds. This hack ensures that the number of seconds in a day remains fixed, an assumption of many systems at th…

Post by codingdave » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 6:31 PM UTC

Post by thinkmassive » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 6:35 PM UTC

shantara wrote: post #44

jezze wrote: post #37

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.

In "Deepness in the Sky" a spaceship's computer is still running on Unix time many thousands years into the future. It is generally believed that the calendar starts with the first Moon landing, and only the main character as a "programmer-archeologist" discovers a small difference between it and true Unix time 0.

Post by netmare » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 6:39 PM UTC

nvrspyx wrote: post #38

susam wrote: post #21

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…

To add, Powershell: (Get-Date "1/1/1970").AddSeconds(1600000000).ToUniversalTime() or alternatively for your local time: (Get-Date "1/1/1970").AddSeconds(1600000000).ToLocalTime()

    $naive = (Get-Date "1/1/1970").AddSeconds(1600000000)
    $local = $naive.ToLocalTime()
    $utc = $local.ToUniversalTime()