Administrivia - Billion Second Day - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

10 Sep 2001

In california that was :
orbit% ./bday
Time to roll is Sat Sep  8 18:46:40 2001

orbit% cat bday.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

int
main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         unsigned long   now;

         now = 1000000000L;
         printf("Time to roll is %s\n", ctime(&now));
         exit(0);
}
orbit%

At 02:36 PM 9/10/01, you wrote:
...
 While IBM, HP, Dec, Intel, Microsoft, and a cast of
thousands have
been duking it out for the past 31-3/4 years, UNIX time() (ref: man 3 time)
has been steadily plodding along and has quietly ticked past 1 billion seconds
within the last day or so. 