Unix clock just rolled over from 1,199,999,999 to 1,200,000,000(drewp.quickwitretort.com)

12 pointsby drewp19 tahun yang lalu7 comments

drewp.quickwitretort.com

Unix clock just rolled over from 1,199,999,999 to 1,200,000,000

http://drewp.quickwitretort.com/2008/01/12/0

7 comments

sanj19 tahun yang lalu

Back about 200 000 000 seconds ago, I had the joy of attending a 'billenium' party -- complete with countdown clock.

The best part was that the party was inspired by a bug in our code caused by the rollover.

In short, there were time values stored in the DB as text -- everything in our DB was text -- and we were using the expedient route of doing simple string compares.

I won't bother explaining more.

But the cake was tasty!

dhouston19 tahun yang lalu

it warms my heart to see that someone else noticed this, and that further it was posted to news.yc and upvoted.

tlrobinson19 tahun yang lalu

Wake me up when we reach 2,000,000,000.

mdemare19 tahun yang lalu

This doesn't mean a whole lot to me. I am, however, looking forward to turning 30 in two years. The big 2^30. Will I live to see 2^31? I don't know...

All this is assuming that time exists, of course.

davidw19 tahun yang lalu

Only about 30 years until it overflows, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

ivankirigin19 tahun yang lalu

Happy New ... err ... CentMill!

jey19 tahun yang lalu

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