Not only is today a Friday the 13th, but it represents a historic occasion in UNIX/POSIX time that will be celebrated by geeks like me around the world. UNIX/POSIX time is the number of seconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC, otherwise known as the time since the epoch. At 23:31:30 UTC today (6:31:30 PM EST), the time since the UNIX epoch will be 1234567890. This serves to remind us that time is ever marching forward, and that someday soon we will have to deal with the POSIX time Y2.038k problem.
Tossing our troubles aside for now... Happy 1234567890! It only happens once an epoch.
P.S. Check out http://coolepochcountdown.com/ for a Web form with the countdown.
Tossing our troubles aside for now... Happy 1234567890! It only happens once an epoch.
P.S. Check out http://coolepochcountdown.com/ for a Web form with the countdown.
OK, so when is 9876543210 going to occur
My compile time reply is:
warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
My runtime response is:
Segmentation fault
The maximum size of a (signed) long integer (32bit) is 2147483647.
Derek Morr didn't even have to write the code like I did...