In case you missed it,  tonight, around 8:46pm the
UNIX time_t counter, which is how most UNIX operating systems
keep time -- counting seconds since 01/01/1970 12:00am, ticked
over from 999999999 -> 1000000000.  i.e. 1 billion seconds.

There was a IRC channel gathering on the Openprojects.net
network.   Some 500 people gathered in #billennium (and a
few other misspelled channels) to mark the passing...
obsessively timesyncing with the NIST and USNO atomic clocks
and watching "while true; do date +%s ; done".

Several people also contributed perl/C/other-language code
to do more or less the same thing.

--
Mark Orr
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