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In about 2 hours it’s 1400000000 unix time

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date +"%s"

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mattwritescode
The title of this post seems to be rather out of date.
Profpatsch
6000 seconds. That’s still about 2 hours. :)
terminado 

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jeffcox
Roughly every three years, the "exciting" change will be in 2033 when it rolls over into 2000000000.
acegopher
The MOST exciting time will be when it hits 2147483647.
acegopher
I remember having recently survived Y2K having to go through all our code and databases again before UNIX time went from 9 to 10 digits in September of 2001.
chrisBob
Why does anyone care about a decimal milestone? I thought the excitement would be when you flip a big bit.
Profpatsch
Unix time is representing seconds, and seconds are a human measurement which use decimal notation.
robobro
Seconds are base 60 actually, just like minutes
chrisBob
I thought about that too, but then we would just be encouraging people to watch as the year wraps around at midnight on 1 January. That milestone is usually overshadowed by other things.
derekp7
It's because I got 10 fingers on my hands. So that kind of makes it interesting, I guess.
archycockroach 

  while true; do echo "I'll have a life in $(expr 1400000000 - $(date +"%s")) seconds" && sleep 1; done
WillKirkby
For unix people:

watch -n 1 date -u +%s

mcfstr
Hacky shell script...

while [ True ]; do sleep 1; clear; echo $(date +%s); done