a rare Unix timestamp occurred yesterday.
next one (1_800_000_000) will be in 2027.


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  • konalt
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    461 year ago

    Cutting it a bit close there.

  • @TeamBrett
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    181 year ago

    I imagine all timestamps are rare. I.e only one exists of each until there is a rollover.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    I’ve been using Linux since 1996 and remember when time_t was less than a billion. I guess I’ve found a new way to date myself. Slightly interestingly I thought, 1 billion was a couple of days before 9/11 which some have said defines the modern era or epoch.

  • palordrolap
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    51 year ago

    Fun fact: If your shell is Bash or supports the same feature(s), date technically isn’t needed; printf '%(%s)T\n' works the same.

    Yes, that is a date/strftime-style percent escape inside a specific parenthetical printf percent escape.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      1 year ago

      it’s starship. you should check it out if you don’t have a handcrafted prompt.

      edit: shell is bash. just with a custom prompt in .bashrc.