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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Mikolaj Kucharski<mikolaj@...> wrote:

> Calendar told me that Unix billennium was today, but Wikipedia and
> date(1) command say something different.
>
> Calendar wrote:
>> Jul 09        Unix billennium begins at 01:46:40 UTC, 2001
>
> $ date -r 1000000000
> Sun Sep  9 02:46:40 IST 2001
>
>
> References
>  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_billennium
>
> --
> best regards
> q#

[mass@marcus 0.5.0 1:1749]$ date -r 1000000000
Sat Sep  8 21:46:40 EDT 2001
[mass@marcus 0.5.0 1:1750]$ date -ur 1000000000
Sun Sep  9 01:46:40 UTC 2001
[mass@marcus 0.5.0 1:1751]$

Got to watch that time zone!

Dave



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