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PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 08 2001,17:51  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
In 1970 the 1st UNIX box was born.
Time was kept since its birth in seconds.
Anno UNIXorum (mad Latin skillz).
It died for your sins.

And today the seconds rolled over 1 billion.
I was there with my time() function. (Jeeze, i'm mind-bogglingly cool)
There were 1 Billion seconds parties tonight.
Yay.
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epoch time? that just means a time time. epoch is just a reference of time. so i fby that rational theres 1 billion seconds u could have an epcoh epoch epoch epoch epoch or an epoch epoch or an epoch epoch epoch.... ok i'll shut up now

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epoch time? that just means a time time. epoch is just a reference of time.

an epoch means a period of time, or a moment in time used as a reference for comparison. UNIX OS's keep time as the number of seconds since 1970, which is called the epoch.

another interesting fact... in 2032 i think, the time value of seconds since the epoch will no longer fit in a 16 bit integer value! so by then the world's unix boxen will need to have adapted to use a 32 bit number for the time value.
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another interesting fact... in 2032 i think, the time value of seconds since the epoch will no longer fit in a 16 bit integer value! so by then the world's unix boxen will need to have adapted to use a 32 bit number for the time value.

Close... it'll actually overflow the 32-bit value being used now and unices will have to be adapted to use a 64-bit value.
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riiiight, thats what i meant
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oh my goodness i've been waiting for this day! w00t! no more 99 entries in my mysql database!

http://dev.joshstorz.com/tools/mktime.php

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It's called the epoch time or something, isn't it?

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Yay now I can sit at my computer counting down the seconds until we hit TWO billion!
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PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 25 2001,12:55 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
in only another ~31.6 yrs.

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1... 2... 3... 4... 5... only 999 million 999 thousand 994 to go!

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