It will be 1234567890 day this weekend. That is, we will get 1234567890 seconds old since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC on Jan 1 1970), on Friday, Feb 13 2009 at 3:31:30 PM PST, which is Saturday, Feb 14 2009 5:01:30 AM Indian time. On most of the Unix systems you can find out your local time for this Unix time using date -d@1234567890. Apart from being a cool number, it will remind us of the year 2038 bug. If you are on a Unix system, try date --date="1/19/2038 8:44:07" and then date --date="1/19/2038 8:44:08" to know if your computer will be affected.
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February 12th, 2009 at 11:04 am
wow, this seems amazing….
February 13th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Any idea what command I should run to find the current epoch time? I know you can get it using programming languages(php -r ‘print time();’) but is there a native linux command for this?
February 13th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Binny, that will be
date +%s.