Tomorrow the Unix timestamp will get to 1,666,666,666

Here is how to get the date from the Unix timestamp (GNU&#x2F;Linux coreutils):<p><pre><code> date -d @1666666666 </code></pre> macOS&#x2F;bsd coreutils:<p><pre><code> date -r 1666666666</code></pre>

Something like 30 years ago I came across a magazine in which there was a calendar with set of events for each day so that you can have a pretext to drink everyday. After a while the idea of a similar service came to mind - a program which would figure the nearest &quot;round&quot; number of seconds, minutes, days in hex, oct, bin etc. So it is more than 20 years already and I&#x27;m still thinking it would be great to implement it finally.

This should be a comemoration of the things that are easy for computers to read and look like a representation of hell for humans. We can&#x27;t in any way find meaning in what 1,666,666,666 seconds are, we can only atribute some magical evil meaning to a number.<p>We would start the party with google deep dream, move to algorithms hiring and firing people, crime prediction, some guy ranting that his life was ruined when youtube close his account and the impossibility of talking to a human, and then would end with a bang reaching 1,666,666,666.<p>I am a fun party planner.

I went to a party (I think EFF sponsored it) at golden gate park when we hit 1,000,000,000

Fun fact: Unix timestamp will eventually be every integer number from 1 to 4294967295

Approximations of Pi: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Approximations_of_π" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Approximations_of_π</a><p>&gt; <i>In the 3rd century BCE, Archimedes proved the sharp inequalities 223⁄71 &lt; π &lt; 22⁄7, by means of regular 96-gons (accuracies of 2·10−4 and 4·10−4, respectively).</i><p><pre><code> 223&#x2F;71 = 3.1408450704225 666&#x2F;212 = 3.1415094339622 π = 3.14159265359 22&#x2F;7 = 3.1428571428571 </code></pre> Is π a good radix for what types of math in addition to Trigonometry? And then what about e for natural systems; the natural log.<p>&quot;Why do colliding blocks compute pi?&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;jsYwFizhncE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;jsYwFizhncE</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.3blue1brown.com&#x2F;lessons&#x2F;clacks-solution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.3blue1brown.com&#x2F;lessons&#x2F;clacks-solution</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;3Blue1Brown&#x2F;comments&#x2F;r29vm5&#x2F;rational_approximations_of_pi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;3Blue1Brown&#x2F;comments&#x2F;r29vm5&#x2F;rationa...</a> ... Geogebra: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geogebra.org&#x2F;m&#x2F;BhxyBJUZ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geogebra.org&#x2F;m&#x2F;BhxyBJUZ</a> :<p>&gt; <i>The applet shows the old method used to approximate the value of π. Archimedes used a 96-sided polygons to find that the value of π is 223&#x2F;71 &lt; π &lt; 22&#x2F;7 (3.1408 &lt; π &lt; 3.1429). In 1630, an Austrian astronomer Christoph Grienberger found a 38-digit approximation by using 10^40-sided polygons. This is the most accurate approximation achieved by this method.</i>

At that time, a total of 1,666,666,693 seconds will have passed since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT as Unix time pretends leap seconds don&#x27;t exist...

Why didn&#x27;t 1,618,033,998 get this much buzz?? Is there a rational explanation for this?

The number of the beast is pretty explicitly the exact number six hundred and sixty six, not &#x27;six six six&#x27;, so any other concatenation of the digits should really be meh even to the apocalyptically inclined.

Well, there is about three devils worth of pain in our Unix servers sometimes.<p>I remember being in a building that was 668 and we called it neighbor of the beast (US streets have odd on one side and even house numbers on the other).

Time flies. Seems like just yesterday the clock hit 1,000,000,000 (Sun Sep 9 01:46:40 UTC 2001)

One of my favorite questions from my take home interview is:<p>&gt; I just turned 1 billion seconds old. What day was I born? &gt; Show your work. Bonus points for precise second.<p>Most people would do it the hard way - determine the number of days in 1 billion seconds, and then work backwards to get the date.<p>The approach that I look for (and surprisingly few people thought to do) was to get the current unix timestamp, remove the leading 1 (billions) and get the datetime for that timestamp.

Apple I was priced at $666.66. Look at what Apple became, a beast!

I won&#x27;t upvote because it currently has 166 points.

To pretty print the Unix timestamp in your ZSH prompt, you can use something like this:<p><pre><code> function prompt_epoch() { printf -v COMMA_EPOCH &quot;%&#x27;d&quot; ${EPOCHSECONDS} p10k segment -f 66 -t ${COMMA_EPOCH} } </code></pre> It relies on zmodload zsh&#x2F;datetime to get EPOCHSECONDS. In the example above I&#x27;m using it with the powerlevel10k prompt.

Guess what else will happen, Unix timestamp will get to 1,666,666,667, then 1,666,666,668, etc.<p>That actually looks like the rent on the old office facility at a company I worked for, only a few decimal places to the left: $16,666.66&#x2F;month &lt;shudder&gt;

Closing in on the Y2K38 problem.

I think it is often an incorrect assumption that the people who flaunt numbers like this are being tongue in cheek.<p>77

If anybody&#x27;s interested, there is a best-guess on why the heck 666 was declared to be the &quot;number of the beast&quot; in ancient scriptures: It&#x27;s a statement that each one of us is our own worst enemy, as this is the number you can easily make an image of with your left hand.<p>The fact that this was inadvertently recycled into the WP gesture is abysmally hilarious.

I know it&#x27;s irrational but now I&#x27;m looking forward to 1732050808

In about 13 hours at time of writing, so <i>today</i> in most US timezones.

at ~10:57EST i&#x27;ll be toasting this event with some kind of intoxicant

Happy Halloween.

And Lucifer shall walk the earth

Praise the sun!

It&#x27;s kind of funny people are so obsessed with 666 when it&#x27;s a mistranslation, the actual number was 616.

Why did I just get &quot;Dawn of the Final Day&quot; vibes?

why is this relevant?

What is the exact unix time for &quot;a cold day in hell&quot;?