Discussion (4)¬

1. Kaitlyn-Geek cubed says:

   July 19, 2009 at 4:48 pm

   i probably should know this but…whats a UNIX clock?

2. Anonymous says:

   September 3, 2009 at 11:40 am

   UNIX is the OS that all linux-derivatives are based on . . . as well as BSD and therefore the current MAC OS.

3. cbhacking says:

   October 8, 2009 at 7:13 am

   More specifically, UNIX time is recorded as seconds (or some fraction thereof, like miliseconds) elapsed since a time (the first second of January 1, 1970) referred to as the epoch. The reason computers keep track of dates/times using systems like this is that it’s possible to represent the time simply as a number, which computers can easily store and use.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

   At my university we crashed the freshman Intro to Programming class to celebrate 1234567890 day. Fortunately the instructor was a cool guy who let us hijack the projector for the occasion…

4. patrick says:

   May 5, 2010 at 1:02 pm

   On a related note, we’ll have the even nerdier version of y2k in 2032 if there are still any systems running 32bit at that point; because the unix clock will overflow.