[PLUG] happy 1.5 billion seconds since unix epoch!

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> writes:

>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> writes:
John> On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:53:36 -0700 Russell Senior
John> <russell at personaltelco.net> dijo:

>>> The balloons are still drifting down here.  It apparently happened
>>> about 3 hours ago.  Happy sesqui-billion seconds, if that's the
>>> right way to say it!

John> About thirty-two years ago? Linux started? Ab urbe condita?

Russell> Second 0 was midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC.

Russell> I'm not sure of all the historical reasons, presumably a
Russell> reasonable if arbitrary choice for people working on operating
Russell> systems and programming languages in the 1970s.

Here's the wikipedia article:

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


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