Today, Friday the 13th, at precisely 23:31:30 GMT (5:31:30 PM Central Time) the time as measured by UNIX computers will be 1234567890. UNIX time is measured as the number of seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970. So at 5:31:30 PM Central tonight it will be exactly 1,234,567,890 seconds since the start of UNIX time.

 

While not particularly meaningful to most people it is a bit of a milestone in the history of computing.  It is also a bit of a reminder of the upcoming UNIX-ocalypse in 2038 (think Y2K).  So everybody, join with me now and party like it's 1234567890!

 

PS  Wow, it's been a really long time since I posted anything!