[Cialug] date question

[Allen Kiddoo]

Found the answer-

Unix time, or POSIX time, is a system for describing points in time,
defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds.

Then you can watch it happen here-

http://www.coolepochcountdown.com/

Allen Kiddoo

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:25 AM, David Champion <dave at dchamp.net> wrote:
> Colin Burnett wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Eric Junker <eric at eric.nu> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Allen Kiddoo wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> googled and can't find answer- What is "1234567890"
>>>>
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
>>>
>>> Another important date will be 2038 when 32-bit timestamps overflow.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not worried.  Three decades to switch to 64-bit.  If 32-bit is
>> still dominant in 3 decades then I'd be more worried about that than
>> the time overflowing.
>>
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
> Everyone who's still running their server on RedHat Linux 6.2 should
> probably be updated before then...
>
> -dc
>
>
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