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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Celebratng The 1234567890 Day

Feb 13th, 15:31 hours was celebrated as the 1234567890 day by Unix geeks worldwide.

Its the date-time in Unix epoch time format. Defined as the number of seconds elapsed since Jan 1, 1970. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time)

By Feb 13th, 15:31 hours 1234567890 seconds had elapsed since Jan 1, 1970!

Tip: To see the date in this format type in "date +%s" (without the quotes) in your Unix/Linux terminal