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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by roland35 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:04AM (#24453020)
How exciting! 1500000000 occured on 07/14/2017 @ 2:40am (UTC), so it seems we'll have to only wait about 3 years until the next one!
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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by colejohnson66 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:08AM (#24453039)
For those wondering, it’s roughly 1157.4 days (38 months)[0]

[0]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1e8+seconds+in+months

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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by YesThatTom2 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:09AM (#24453053)
The fact that it happens so consistently indicates it is some kind of conspiracy.
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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by bigyikes on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:17AM (#24453117)
Big Gravity is conspiring to keep us all down
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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by User23 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @12:51PM (#24453715)
At least it's cheap, clean, and reliable.
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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by mathgeek on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:26AM (#24453180)
Almost like a bunch of folks worked together to make this happen, but only a relatively small number worldwide know who they are.
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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by WrtCdEvrydy on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:26AM (#24453181)
Unix didn't kill itself?
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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by Sebb767 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @05:12PM (#24455737)
The year of the Linux desktop has been within us all along!
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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by dylan604 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @02:31PM (#24454382)
Like the ticking of a clock
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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by NGC404 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:55AM (#24453349)
anyone throwing a party for the illuminated?
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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by maxnoe on Saturday September 12, 2020 @12:28PM (#24453576)
A year is approximately PI × 1e7 seconds
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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by fred256 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @03:13PM (#24454730)
"π seconds is a nanocentury."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Duff

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