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Re: Unix billennium in calendar(1)

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:11 AM, patrick keshishian<pkeshish@...> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Woodchuck<marmot@...> wrote:
>> 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!
>
> "watch" the month.

Ah, so.  Calendar is wrong, then.

Dave



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