--- Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:38:35PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: >> | I hope not, or is this another temporal anomaly? >> >> Nope, on Saturday at uh, something like 1:40 GMT, the number of seconds >> since 1970 passed the 1000000000000 mark. Got some scripts that depend on >> time() returning a 9 digit value...yer in trouble :-) > >Nope, Sunday actually... and Jacob had it right.. a few less 0's :P > >Mike. >-- >Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >The first 90% of the code in a project takes 90% of the time. >The next 10% of the code will take another 90% of the time. > -- J. S. Labuschagne > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It looks like we're getting confused between the UK billion and the American billion. (Apologies to all other countries who use one or the other.) American (including Unix) = 10^9 British = 10^12 Y.Kelly _____________________________________________________________ Are you a Techie? Get Your Free Tech Email Address Now! Visit http://www.TechEmail.com
