Feb 13 2009

1234567890

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From Wired:
“… at precisely 3:31:30 p.m. Pacific time on February 13, 2009, the 10-digit “epoch time” clock used by most Unix computers will display all ten decimal digits in sequence.”
1234567890 seconds since the epoch start.

If you have python installed you can see this by opening the idle shell (in start menu) and typing this:

import time
int(time.time())  #will display seconds since epoch

Or you could have it print a message at the appropriate moment so you don’t miss it (if that’s important to you :) :

def check_time(thetime):
   now = int(time.time())
   if now == thetime:
       print 50*'-'
       print 'time is',now,'!'
       print 50*'-'

while True:
   check_time(1234567890)

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