Rabidgremlin's Soapbox » Geek http://blog.rabidgremlin.com A little soapbox for me to stand on and rant from. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:59:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Party like its 1234567890 http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2009/02/05/party-like-its-1234567890/ http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2009/02/05/party-like-its-1234567890/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:02:34 +0000 jack http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/?p=347 So one of my colleagues (thanks Matthew) just sent me this link which is so geeky I just had to blog about it.

Apparently on Friday, February 13th 2009, 23:31:30 GMT the Epoch time count will read “1234567890″ for the first (and last time).

For those of you who don’t know what Epoch time is (shame on you) it is basically a count of the number of seconds since 00:00:00 GMT on January 1, 1970. Computer systems use this mechanism for storing time because they handle nice big integer numbers very efficiently.

Of course when 2038 rolls around we are all going to be in trouble because the count of milliseconds will be too big to store in the space that most computer systems allocate for storing this time count!

By then of course we should all be using at least 64bit systems so it shouldn’t be a problem and we won’t Y2K48 problem (he says smirking).

If you are planning a “1234567890″ party (you are planning a party right?) then this “countdown” would be ideal to project up onto a wall or show on a big screen :)

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