Thus spake Ian Hinds
> > I'm not sure, but I think the epoch time just jumped to a 10 
> > digit number.  While it doesn't actually make any difference to the
> > OS, I just thought I'd remind anyone that uses the epoch counter as
> > a string that the old 9 digit assumptions just failed.
> 
> Well spotted bang goes a billion seconds - you need to get out more
> though:-) Whats the estimate of people who reached for their
> favourite utility/compiler to check?

Well, I had to know exactly when it happened.

$ TZ=UTC date -r 999999999
Sun Sep  9 01:46:39 UTC 2001

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