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Title: Today is...
Post by: The Moan Ranger on February 13, 2009, 05:34:57 PM

...not only an allegedly unlucky day, but also 1234567890 day.

At 11.13pm to be precise.

Praise be to Unix :-)

Title: Re: Today is...
Post by: Uncle Mort on February 14, 2009, 07:45:07 PM

perl -e ‘print scalar localtime(1234567890),”\n”;’

Title: Re: Today is...
Post by: Darwins Selection on February 14, 2009, 11:37:13 PM

Is this something like the number of seconds since Babbage was born?

Title: Re: Today is...
Post by: The Moan Ranger on February 15, 2009, 10:20:37 AM

Close, the number of seconds since January 1st 1970, which was the official beginning of the Unix epoch.

Title: Re: Today is...
Post by: Darwins Selection on February 15, 2009, 04:52:09 PM

I worked out something about computers!  cloud9:

Title: Re: Today is...
Post by: Snoopy on February 15, 2009, 05:00:42 PM

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postimage.org%2FPq2eO_Cr.gif&hash=5bcefebdf76182b7bf76bcc9691e42dfc56c31b6) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq2eO_Cr)

Title: Re: Today is...
Post by: Grumpmeister on February 16, 2009, 10:15:24 AM

Quote from: Darwins Selection on February 15, 2009, 04:52:09 PM

I worked out something about computers!  cloud9:

 scared2: Isnt that one of the precursors of the apocalypse.....  whistle: