Saturday, February 28, 2009

UNIX’s Unique Birthday!


On February 13th 2009, a very special moment for UNIX lovers will occur. UNIX will be celebrating its 1234567890th birthday. Wondering how? Here’s its explanation.
UNIX calculates its time as number of seconds since January 1, 1970. On February 13 2009 at 11:31 PM GMT, this time will reach 1234567890 seconds. You can see this time on your UNIX based machine by opening a terminal and typing date +%s
Or if you don’t have UNIX installed, don’t worry. You can view live countdown right here.

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