Subject: Re: Y2K sort of problem.
To: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 09/09/2001 23:07:03
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:35:17PM -0500, Dave Huang wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > Well, I had to know exactly when it happened.
> >
> > $ TZ=UTC date -r 999999999
> > Sun Sep  9 01:46:39 UTC 2001
> 
> Some local Unixheads had a party to celebrate :) The official ending
> time of the party was 8:46 PM CDT (GMT-5), but I'm sure everyone stayed
> past that (I didn't attend myself)...

Wish it didn't happen at 04:46 (AM) local time.. ;)

Better luck when time == 0x40000000 (in 2004), 15:37 local time :-)

  -jm