Happy 1234567890 day!

Happy 1234567890 day!

by Martin Dougiamas -
Number of replies: 5
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Today is 1234567890 seconds since the start of 1970. smile
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In reply to Martin Dougiamas

Re: Happy 1234567890 day!

by Don Hinkelman -
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Whenever my notebook computer runs out of power, it reverts the clock back to 1970. Has this ever happened to you?

Is there some significance to 1970? Maybe Martin and Eloy were born that year.
In reply to Don Hinkelman

Re: Happy 1234567890 day!

by Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) -
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Yes, I was born a couple of seconds after epoch (1229884337 seconds ago exactly, right now) wink

Too many seconds ago, btw! tongueout

Ciao smile
In reply to Don Hinkelman

Re: Happy 1234567890 day!

by John Lagrue -
In the first unix systems, the date function in C was defined as giving the number of seconds since 00:00:00 1st January 1970 (known in Unix circles as "the epoch").

This is now the de facto returned value in most computing languages, as far as I know.