Let's party like it's 1234567890

Unix computers track dates by counting the number of seconds since January 1, 1970. Well, we've just gone past the date 1234567890 seconds since January 1, 1970.

Time to get jiggy. Or whatever the Hep Cats call it these days.

And since this time format is called Epoch Time, here's Epoch Fail. Heh.


Note that this has nothing to do with the Y2K bug, where programs ran out of space to store the date, and had to be fixed. That's the Unixalypse, and won't happen for another 20 odd years. The Register has more.