Countdown to timestamp 1,500M

Wow, we&#x27;re about to see the end of the 1,400M era. The 1,400M era saw me moving to the big city and getting pushed into project management.<p>Hoping the 1,500M era is nothing but good memories of getting my hands dirty again.

some info to save someone else from having to look it up<p><pre><code> 1 400 000 000 was 5&#x2F;13&#x2F;2014, 11:53:20 AM 1 600 000 000 will be 9&#x2F;13&#x2F;2020, 7:26:40 AM 1 000 000 000 was 9&#x2F;8&#x2F;2001, 8:46:40 PM 2 000 000 000 will be 5&#x2F;17&#x2F;2033, 10:33:20 PM 2^32-1 (4 294 967 295) will be 2&#x2F;7&#x2F;2106, 12:28:15 AM 100 million seconds is a little over 3 years 1 billion seconds is almost 32 years.</code></pre>

I remember staying up late (uk time), watching the seconds on my 17&quot; 4x3 cry running on Debian tick over to 1e9 back in September 2001, with slashdot open on the side.<p>Now, 500 million seconds later I&#x27;ll be watching the counter on an ubuntu laptop. Not quite as late as I&#x27;m in Washington DC on business, and I abandoned &#x2F;. a couple of years ago.<p>It amazes me how much changes, but also how little things change.

Wow, in the last 100M seconds I&#x27;ve gotten married, bought a house, had two kids, graduated college, started my own company. That&#x27;s one heck of a metric.

But be aware with your celebration. It can be slightly off due to leap seconds. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unix.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;327361&#x2F;openbsd-6-0-ntpctl-says-clocked-synced-but-is-26-seconds-behind&#x2F;327403#327403" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unix.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;327361&#x2F;openbsd-6-0-...</a>

At the beginning of 1.4 I was just a freshman. Now, at the beginning of 1.5, I&#x27;m just a different kind of freshman.

Shouldn&#x27;t we celebrate changes in the binary representations instead of decimal?. After all, that&#x27;s how it&#x27;s stored.

And only 7,494 days, 5 hours, 22 seconds until timestamp -2,147,483,648 (assuming your system uses the original Unix signed 32-bit integer time format).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Year_2038_problem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Year_2038_problem</a>

And happy 1500000000!

Back in 2001 my social circle had a &quot;gigasecond party&quot; where we got together to cheer the moment of 1000000000. Like New Years, except that it was during the afternoon.

This is like New Year for geeks

It looks that next interesting timestamp will be in 4 months - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;timestamp.online&#x2F;article&#x2F;countdown-to-interesting-timestamps" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;timestamp.online&#x2F;article&#x2F;countdown-to-interesting-tim...</a> :)

Noted at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14758615" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14758615</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14764504" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14764504</a> .

This post was for shirt time period first on hacker news. More than 2k people arrived during first hour. For more details you can check my analysis - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;iKM3kV" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;iKM3kV</a>

On a mac, you can keep track by opening the terminal and running the command &quot;date +%s&quot; (no quotes).

The website &#x27;honors&#x27; the max time <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;timestamp.online&#x2F;countdown&#x2F;2147483647" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;timestamp.online&#x2F;countdown&#x2F;2147483647</a> (it gives the same value for all URLs larger than it)

I remember the 1234567890 celebrations. I saved the IRC log from #1234567890 on Freenode.

That was epoch! ;)

Which means we&#x27;re not getting younger