Earlier today, the Linux Epoch time ... which is the number os seconds since January 1st 1970 when the world was created ... reached this number:
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Greg,
I remembered it about three hours late. Someone had posted a perl script to display it too. Very bummed.
Are you sure about that? I make the count 4996CA01.
Of course the REAL programmers celebrated ages ago when it turned 0123456789....