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unix time hits the bigtime
time on Unix machines is counted in seconds (I believe since 12am, January
1 1970), and today it turned 900,000,000.
by a strange coincidance, it happend at exactly 9:00:00 Pacific time on
the 9th day of July :-) (my local time)
as an aside: Unix systems are generally Y2K compatable since they only
count seconds and not years, and it's mainly the applications that have
problems (my favourite Email program, PINE, just came out with a Y2K fix
this week). Unix time is defined as a long int (31 bits and a sign bit on
most systems) which means basically that it too will end circa 2038, and
cause as much confusion if not more, as the Y2K bug is causing today...
"but by then Unix will die out ofcourse,
and if it won't, then this (the y2k+38 bug) should finally do the trick"
(famous last words, by Ben Shelef)