happy 1_700_000_000 everyone!
a rare Unix timestamp occurred yesterday.
next one (1_800_000_000) will be in 2027.
edit: seems like Lemmy doesn't like video links in pictures field. so pasted it below.
a rare Unix timestamp occurred yesterday.
next one (1_800_000_000) will be in 2027.
edit: seems like Lemmy doesn't like video links in pictures field. so pasted it below.
*Disinformation Age
The Information Age appeared for a brief moment and went straight into the Disinformation Age
I've been using Linux since 1996 and remember when time_t was less than a billion. I guess I've found a new way to date myself. Slightly interestingly I thought, 1 billion was a couple of days before 9/11 which some have said defines the modern era or epoch.
Fun fact: If your shell is Bash or supports the same feature(s), date
technically isn't needed; printf '%(%s)T\n'
works the same.
Yes, that is a date
/strftime
-style percent escape inside a specific parenthetical printf
percent escape.