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Unix to End the World on Friday the 13th!

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FunkyMonkey

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Sep 4, 2007
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Right behind you
:eek:

Forget the Mayans and their silly 2012 doomsday scenario. The real end of the world will happen because of that most venerable of operating systems: UNIX.

That's because next Friday, UNIX time will read 1234567890. Scary! And, it just so happens that this event will coincide with one of the more superstitious days on our calendar, Friday the 13th. Scarier!
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To see when this takes place in your time zone, run this little Perl script, which I promise won't end the world before next Friday:

perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'

**** just got real, folks. Say good-bye to loved ones. Make sure you start with your Windows machines, because UNIX is probably going to take them out first. Part of an agreement with Linux and Linus Torvalds, I've heard.
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http://i.gizmodo.com/5149220/beware-unix-time-to-read-1234567890-on-friday-the-13th
 
They were so all-knowing and all-powerful that they probably commanded that the 13th would fall on a Friday. However, they did this using cryptic 3-letter command names, piped together with punctuation symbols. Since nobody can actually read such things, we'll never have positive proof.
 
Apparently the world didn't end.

Kudos to website http://coolepochcountdown.com/ which went crazy with fireworks and music ("Celebration" by Kool & The Gang) once the clock passed 1234567890! :)

Click image to see a few screenshots:
1234567890.gif​
 
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