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Offline The Moan Ranger

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Today is...
« on: February 13, 2009, 05:34:57 PM »
...not only an allegedly unlucky day, but also 1234567890 day.

At 11.13pm to be precise.

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Re: Today is...
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2009, 07:45:07 PM »
perl -e ‘print scalar localtime(1234567890),”\n”;’


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Re: Today is...
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2009, 11:37:13 PM »
Is this something like the number of seconds since Babbage was born?
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Re: Today is...
« Reply #3 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.

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Re: Today is...
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2009, 04:52:09 PM »
I worked out something about computers!  cloud9:
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Re: Today is...
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2009, 05:00:42 PM »


I used to have a handle on life but it broke.

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Re: Today is...
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2009, 10:15:24 AM »
I worked out something about computers!  cloud9:

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