There's an idea!   Since it's likely to be only perl programs that choke
sorting / comparing dates in localtime as strings, celebrating the Unixoid
rollover perlishy would be appropriate ... and more fun than I had on Y2K ...

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John Tobey wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 07:21:09PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >
> > is there a tech meeting this tuesday? any presenters? we can tell TPC
> > stories and such.
> 
> I'd be curious to know whether anyone feels like celebrating the
> billionth second since the epoch.
> 
>     $ perl -le 'print scalar localtime 1e9'
>     Sat Sep  8 21:46:40 2001

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