How could we have missed this one?

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
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Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 11:49 PM
Subject: OT: How could we have missed this one?


> What?  No one on the list noticed this "special time" we just passed?
> 
>     http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/02/13/epoch-win/
> 


I knew about it.
I've been moaning in my irc haunt all day that I'm not going to make it to Boskone, at which some friends are having, had, ofcourse, a Boston time_t party ;)

I also wasn't paying attention for 1234554321

I also realized a weird thing.
I was born 18 days after 0
I will be one day older than 68 when time_t runs out.
So if I happened to die that day at least it will be funny.
I will have pretty closely lived the same span as time_t.
The thing could read (if we're willing to fudge a few days for the sake of the gag):
Born: 0
Died: 2147483647

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