Relevant and interesting, from the article (note date of article and my bolded section):
Early Sunday morning in Greenwich, England, the clock that keeps Universal Time will strike 01:46:40 -- the 40th second of the 46th minute in the second hour of Sept. 9, 2001.
That instant will be an anniversary for the Unix operating system: It marks one billion seconds since midnight on Jan. 1, 1970, which is the moment Unix computers recognize as zero-time.
What exactly will happen at that instant isn't up for much debate. Airplanes will feel no increased desire to come hurtling to the ground, and nuclear weapons won't go off unbidden. Social security computers will not become confused about how old your mother is and spry 24-year-olds are unlikely to suddenly receive membership into the AARP.
That's weird. I literally just read the following post on another forum last night - an old thread from 2011, which was bumped yesterday by someone:
UNIX Time Stamp Did they set us up from the start?
P.S. Be wary of that website - all kinds of propaganda and manipulation going on. Shields up.
Also, an interesting link that someone posted on that page:
Unix Tick Tocks to a Billion
Relevant and interesting, from the article (note date of article and my bolded section):
But my wife, in her 40s, was getting solicitations from AARP.
Always found that interesting that it was a billion just before 911. Now we are almost to 1700000000 kek. White hats turn ?
We will hit the 2 billion second mark May 17, 2023 23:33:20 (ET). There's another 17.
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