Unix Time = 1234567890 on 14 Feb.

[adrianx]

$ date -d @1234567890
Sat Feb 14 01:31:30 SAST 2009

Screw Valentine's.... I'm going to be celebrating this 1 second event! If I'm still awake, that is.

 

[wezhira]

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[dadecoza]

$ date -d @1234567890
Sat Feb 14 01:31:30 SAST 2009

Screw Valentine's.... I'm going to be celebrating this 1 second event! If I'm still awake, that is.

+1

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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. It is widely used not only on Unix-like operating systems but also in many other computing systems. It is neither a linear representation of time nor a true representation of UTC (though it is frequently mistaken for both) as the times it represents are UTC but it has no way of representing UTC leap seconds (e.g. 1998-12-31 23:59:60).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

 

[Kasyx]

Yeah, it annoys the crap out of me that it happens at 1:30 in the morning

 

[Kasyx]

Furthermore:

http://www.1234567890day.com/

 

[adrianx]

From Wikipedia:

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. It is widely used not only on Unix-like operating systems but also in many other computing systems. It is neither a linear representation of time nor a true representation of UTC (though it is frequently mistaken for both) as the times it represents are UTC but it has no way of representing UTC leap seconds (e.g. 1998-12-31 23:59:60).

So it's the number of seconds (not counting leap seconds) elapsed since midnight of 01/01/1970.

Edit: Oops: I was a bit ssslllloooowww to respond.