UNIX Milestone! Happy 1.5 Billion

[Thomas Wodarek]

Isn't Friday 2:40 AM GMT, Thursday 10:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4)?

On Jul 13, 2017 8:28 AM, "Abstraction Club" <abstraction at calvin.edu> wrote:

> Hello Abstraction Members!
>
> We're about halfway through the summer, and we wanted to break radio
> silence to let you know about a big Milestone, happening tomorrow morning.
>
> UNIX Time is a number used by most *nix (UNIX/Linux/BSD/other) systems to
> calculate the current time and date. It does this by generating a number
> that represents the amount of time, in seconds, that has passed since the
> Unix epoch of January 1, 1970.
>
> <https://www.epochconverter.com/countdown>
> At 10:40AM EST Friday, the number of seconds will reach 1,500,000,000
> <https://www.epochconverter.com/countdown>.
>
> Don't forget to attend your local epoch party
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Notable_events_in_Unix_time>.
>
>
> Thank you for your attention. Back to our regularly scheduled content.
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