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It's coming.... an event of monumental proportions.
A once in a lifetime happening. Literally. It will happen once, and never again.
It happens in a few days.... here is the moment in various timezones around the world:
| Honolulu | Friday, Feb 13 at 1:31:30pm |
| Anchorage | Friday, Feb 13 at 2:31:30pm |
| San Francisco | Friday, Feb 13 at 3:31:30pm |
| Calgary | Friday, Feb 13 at 4:31:30pm |
| New York | Friday, Feb 13 at 6:31:30pm |
| La Paz | Friday, Feb 13 at 7:31:30pm |
| Sao Paulo | Friday, Feb 13 at 9:31:30pm |
| London | Friday, Feb 13 at 11:31:30pm |
| Berlin | Saturday, Feb 14 at 12:31:30am |
| Athens | Saturday, Feb 14 at 1:31:30am |
| Nairobi | Saturday, Feb 14 at 2:31:30am |
| Tehran | Saturday, Feb 14 at 3:01:30am |
| Bangalore | Saturday, Feb 14 at 5:01:30am |
| Kathmandu | Saturday, Feb 14 at 5:16:30am |
| Jakarta | Saturday, Feb 14 at 6:31:30am |
| Hong Kong | Saturday, Feb 14 at 7:31:30am |
| Kyoto | Saturday, Feb 14 at 8:31:30am |
| Sydney | Saturday, Feb 14 at 10:31:30am |
| Auckland | Saturday, Feb 14 at 12:31:30pm |
| Kiritimati | Saturday, Feb 14 at 1:31:30pm |
All the examples above represents the same moment in time....
....the moment that UnixTime rolls through 1234567890.
Mark your calendars, and ensure that your children are safe; some of the parties are likely to get well out of hand.
(Yes, I am a geek 🙂 )
UPDATE: You can follow the exciting second-by-second coundown here.
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Uh….O.K., I guess.
I’m not a programmer… and I have no clue about anything in Unix other than a few FTP commands from the olden days. Still, I’m usually aware of what my odometer reads and anticipate interesting patterns that also will never happen again (unless I wanted to try the Ferris Buehler method 😉 )
Therefore, I understand your geekness. Take screenshots! 🙂
I really wish I could be in Auckland for that event.
mmh, I have one doubt: if unix time was created for independent time zone use, why the 1234567890 happens in different time in different location?
Because the same instant… the same moment… is represented by a different wall-clock time in each time zone. Humans express time that is always dependent on a location-specific timezone, while UnixTime has no connection to any specific human representation of time. Any conversion to or from a Unix Time necessarily involves a timezone for the conversion and for the human-time display. The list of human times on the post are a result of using various timezones around the world to convert that one UnixTime. —Jeffrey
I got it 🙂
My question was because I supposed (erroneously …) that Unix systems had a automatic way for syncronizing all unixtime in all Unix system all the world, so that ii could exists a unique world reference time (turn pink!)
bye 🙂