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Unix Time Hits 1200000000 Today! Watch it happen!
January 10, 2008 on 3:54 pm | In ManPageMinute, Techspeak, Uncategorized |Today, Unix and derivative operating systems all over the world will have their clocks reach 1200000000. This is the number of seconds which have elapsed since the “dawn of time” (in Unix terms, anyway), or 1970.
If you want to watch your clock flip, just issue this command
watch -n1 date +”%s”
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