Tell HN: Unix time reaches 1.5×10⁹ at 02:40:00 on July 14th, 2017 (UTC)

I was just working on a shell script that uses date +%s, and realised there's a rather long sequence of nines going on.

It will have been 1 billion 500 million seconds since January 1st, 1970. And it's on a Friday night! Time for a party, for a time!

To check what local time that corresponds to for you, run

  date -d "@1500000000"