UNIX Milestone! Happy 1.5 Billion

[Nathan Phillip Brink]

My computer agrees with Thomas:

$ date -d @1500000000 +%Y-%m-%d\ %T\ %Z
2017-07-13 22:40:00 EDT


On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 09:23:45AM -0400, Thomas Wodarek wrote:
> 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.
> > --
> > [Club Website] <http://abs.calvin.edu/>
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> >
> > A B S T R A C T I O N
> >

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binki

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