Unix clock just rolled over from 1,199,999,999 to 1,200,000,000

Back about 200 000 000 seconds ago, I had the joy of attending a 'billenium' party -- complete with countdown clock.

The best part was that the party was inspired by a bug in our code caused by the rollover.

In short, there were time values stored in the DB as text -- everything in our DB was text -- and we were using the expedient route of doing simple string compares.

I won't bother explaining more.

But the cake was tasty!

it warms my heart to see that someone else noticed this, and that further it was posted to news.yc and upvoted.

Wake me up when we reach 2,000,000,000.

This doesn't mean a whole lot to me. I am, however, looking forward to turning 30 in two years. The big 2^30. Will I live to see 2^31? I don't know...

All this is assuming that time exists, of course.

Only about 30 years until it overflows, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Happy New ... err ... CentMill!

onhnoes