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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2008-01-10 12:04 pm
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Kind bud for old hacks

Unix turns precisely 1.2 billion seconds old this afternoon at precisely 4:20pm Eastern time.

$ unix2local
Please enter the UTC time: 1200000000
Thu Jan 10 16:20:00 2008 (Boston)

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[personal profile] cnoocy 2008-01-10 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I only get credit for noticing that it's at freaking 4:20.

[identity profile] cortezopossum.livejournal.com 2008-01-10 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
My first thought upon seeing this was: "Happy I'm-a-total-geek Day!"

[identity profile] aspartaimee.livejournal.com 2008-01-10 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
i wonder what kind of cross section the unix geeks and the 420 peeps have. this is like some grand conjunction for those five people.

[identity profile] jtroutman.livejournal.com 2008-01-10 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
nice round number. I feel like such a old guy -- I only learned the meaning of 420 in the last year. Yeah, I'm hip. Not that I disapprove..
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