What are you doing to celebrate?

>Fri 14 Jul 2017 02:40:00 UTC
>Unix time is 1500000000

What will you do? Personally I'll be lighting a candle (for dmr) and installing Research Unix in SIMH whilst stroking my beard.

Anyone got any Unix stories to tell?

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nothing
I'm not an autistic nerd

Probably nothing.

Install gentoo

>What will you do?
Programming in C after 5 years since I've abandoned it.

Couple of minutes later and after some mallocs, segfaults and UBs, I'll remember why I've abandoned it and went to Rust and Go instead.

You’re posting on this Mongolian basketweaving forum. Chances are you’re autistic and just don’t know it.

>tfw the Y2K error will happen again

sleep

Trying to get 1500000000000 picture on Sup Forums.

Sleeping, alas.
>tfw you're not in the right timezone to properly celebrate

same honestly
been figuring out image timing all day :^)

shit i just figured out why they are named like that.

That's today at 10:40 EST, right?

date -d @1500000000

Have fun trying to nail it down to the microsecond. I've only ever seen a few ones with clear trips.

Yes.

So it was 3 hours ago? I didn't even hear about it.

PM, AKA 22:00. It's currently 1499972322

>PM, AKA 22:00. It's currently 1499972322
What do I do with this information?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
If I want to celebrate exactly 1.5 billion seconds since the epoch, should I do so already at @1499999973 or 02:39:33 UTC?
>Leap seconds in Unix time are commonly implemented by repeating the last second of the day.

Start counting? And get your Gentoo iso's ready.

millisecond*
it isn't that precise