[time-nuts] A milestone approaches

[William H. Fite]

My spouse's license plate is BEFUNGE.


On Wednesday, July 12, 2017, Tom Van Baak <tvb at leapsecond.com> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> > Got this from a friend whose MN license plate is UNIX.
>
> Join the club! There's ~50 of us in the US: http://leapsecond.com/pages/
> unix/
>
>
> > At that instant, billions of Linux and Unix computers and devices
>
> Plus embedded devices, such as Arduino, where 31-bit time_t C libraries
> are also used...
>
>
> > return time() == 1500000000.  It will not be until 2033 when that number
> reaches 2 Billion.
>
> Thanks for the notice. Add these to your list:
>
> 1414213562 0x544b2fba Sat Oct 25 06:06:02 2014 GMT (sqrt 2)
> 1415926535 0x54655307 Fri Nov 14 00:55:35 2014 GMT (pi)
> 1420405752 0x54a9abf8 Sun Jan 04 21:09:12 2015 GMT (H-maser Hz)
> 1500000000 0x59682f00 Fri Jul 14 03:40:00 2017 GMT (1.5 billion)
> 1616161616 0x6054ab50 Fri Mar 19 13:46:56 2021 GMT (pretty in dec)
> 1616928864 0x60606060 Sun Mar 28 10:54:24 2021 GMT (pretty in hex)
> 1717171717 0x6659f605 Fri May 31 17:08:37 2024 GMT (dec looking like oct)
> 1886417008 0x70707070 Thu Oct 11 13:43:28 2029 GMT (pretty in hex)
> 1985229328 0x76543210 Sun Nov 28 04:35:28 2032 GMT (hex digit countdown)
> 2000000000 0x77359400 Wed May 18 04:33:20 2033 GMT (2 billion)
> 2004318071 0x77777777 Thu Jul 07 04:01:11 2033 GMT (pretty in hex)
> 2147483647 0x7fffffff Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 GMT (end of time)
> 2147483648 0x80000000 Tue Jan 19 03:14:08 2038 GMT (you survived)
>
> While we're at it, we have a rare T&F MJD event coming in 2023:
>
> 1968-05-24 00:00:00 UTC (DOY = 145, Fri) = JD 2440000.5 = MJD 40000.0
> 1995-10-10 00:00:00 UTC (DOY = 283, Tue) = JD 2450000.5 = MJD 50000.0
> 2023-02-25 00:00:00 UTC (DOY =  56, Sat) = JD 2460000.5 = MJD 60000.0
>
> /tvb
>
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-- 
William H Fite, PhD
Independent Consultant
Statistical Analysis & Research Methods