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Unix time 1234567890!

This historial day Unix time turned 1234567890 at Sat Feb 14 00:31:30 CET 2009. Unix time or POSIX time counts the number of seconds elapsed since midnight January 1, 1970 UTC. Unix time does not count leap seconds.

[root@fortran ~]# date +%s
1234567890

Last major celebration for Unix time was Sun Sep 9 03:46:40 CET 2001 when it turned 1000000000.

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2 Responses to “Unix time 1234567890!”

  1. Alex Says:
    May 4th, 2009 at 5:54 am

    Did you really catch it when it happened? :-)

  2. amelia Says:
    May 5th, 2009 at 8:29 am

    Yes I did. :)