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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

a rare Unix timestamp occurred yesterday.
next one (1_800_000_000) will be in 2027.


edit: seems like Lemmy doesn't like video links in pictures field. so pasted it below.

video recording the moment in terminal

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[-] konalt@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months ago

Cutting it a bit close there.

[-] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 11 months ago

yes lol. became anxious fearing I'd miss it and hence made typos :')

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 37 points 11 months ago

Nothing existed prior to January 1, 1970.

It is known.

[-] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

It is known.

[-] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago

End of universe, 2038.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

From the atomic age into the information age. That date is a good marker.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

*Disinformation Age

The Information Age appeared for a brief moment and went straight into the Disinformation Age

[-] TeamBrett@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

I imagine all timestamps are rare. I.e only one exists of each until there is a rollover.

[-] Aabbcc@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago

Had to explain Unix time to my friends when I sent them a picture of 1696969420

[-] RAM@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 11 months ago

🥳🥳🥳

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 6 points 11 months ago

Hooray we did it!

[-] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 months ago

I've been using Linux since 1996 and remember when time_t was less than a billion. I guess I've found a new way to date myself. Slightly interestingly I thought, 1 billion was a couple of days before 9/11 which some have said defines the modern era or epoch.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Fun fact: If your shell is Bash or supports the same feature(s), date technically isn't needed; printf '%(%s)T\n' works the same.

Yes, that is a date/strftime-style percent escape inside a specific parenthetical printf percent escape.

[-] bamboo 4 points 11 months ago

What shell is this that it outputs the duration after exiting the loop? Looks nifty.

[-] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

it's starship. you should check it out if you don't have a handcrafted prompt.

edit: shell is bash. just with a custom prompt in .bashrc.

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