On Friday the 13th this month, February, 2009...
In an event that's sure to bring a burst of adrenalin to computer geeks everywhere, the official Unix calendar is about to pass a milestone: exactly 1234567890 seconds since the clock first started ticking.
POSIX is the official a widely used time-keeping method for Unix and is measured in the number of seconds that have passed since January 1, 1970 at midnight UTC (not counting leap seconds). It has since been adopted by many other computer systems.
[From Geekerati brace for Unix timestamp milestone • The Register]
The event occurs at 11:31:30pm UTC.
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