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Re:Happy 1600M epoch second by hamaki on Sunday September 13, 2020 @11:39AM (#24461512)
This is gonna be weird seeing timestamps starting with 16- from now on
Re:Happy 1600M epoch second by karmakaze on Sunday September 13, 2020 @01:30PM (#24462470)
Sort of like I remember the rollover from 9.. to 1000000000 in 2001 like it wasn't all that long ago as I was well into my career. It must have been a notable moment as I remember that I was doing some consulting work hooking up remote datasources for some telecom apps.
Re:Happy 1600M epoch second by jlgaddis on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:52PM (#24463445)
Our local Linux User Group (now defunct) had a "special event" to celebrate the occasion (although I didn't realize ~19 years have since past!).

Unfortunately, the bakery we got the cake from was unable to satisfy our request for 1000000000 candles on the cake.

Re:Happy 1600M epoch second by karmakaze on Sunday September 13, 2020 @05:47PM (#24464196)
Yeah the seconds since must me shorter. You could've gone for 31.7 candles but it doesn't have the same splash.
Re:Happy 1600M epoch second by simply_sam on Monday September 14, 2020 @02:08PM (#24473193)
Should’ve asked for 10 candles and only lit the first candle