[ale] 900000000 seconds

[Bob's ALE Mail]

> Jason Boyles <jason at chunk.hboc.com> wrote:

> Behold:

> | [jason at chunk jason]$ date -d '12:00:00 July 9, 1998' +%s
> | 900000000

> IOW, 12 noon on Thursday, July 9th was the 900,000,000th second
> of the UNIX epoch.

Let's see.  1,000,000,000 would be 21:46:40 September 08, 2001 ET.

I wonder what percentage of the programs that survived Y2K will bomb
out at this time because at some point they convert the seconds to
a nine-digit decimal number.

Bob Toxen
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