Unix time (POSIX time) is a system for describing points in time, defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds.
At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890. You can verify this as follows:
$ date -d@1234567890
Sample output:
Fri Feb 13 17:31:30 CST 2009
This will be happening on Sat Feb 14th early in the morning in New Delhi, India (IST local time):
$ date -d@1234567890
Sample output:
Sat Feb 14 05:01:30 IST 2009
One of those magic times: On Friday the 13th! (found via slashdot)
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Friday 13 is believed to be unhappy because of Templar Order, see Wiki for more info.
For Mac user : the command is
$ date -r 1234567890
in UK the result is Ven 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 GMT
neat parlor trick. but does it have any useful traits?
Oh its cool !
This is great!