Administrivia - Billion Second Day

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_netapp.com>
Date: Mon Sep 10 18:51:06 2001

In california that was :
orbit% ./bday
Time to roll is Sat Sep 8 18:46:40 2001

orbit% cat bday.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

int
main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         unsigned long now;

         now = 1000000000L;
         printf("Time to roll is %s\n", ctime(&now));
         exit(0);
}
orbit%


At 02:36 PM 9/10/01, you wrote:
>While IBM, HP, Dec, Intel, Microsoft, and a cast of thousands have
>been duking it out for the past 31-3/4 years, UNIX time() (ref: man 3 time)
>has been steadily plodding along and has quietly ticked past 1 billion seconds
>within the last day or so.
Received on Mon Sep 10 2001 - 18:51:06 BST