Good point. It saw me gain a teenager (second hand) by virtue of being in a relationship with somebody and I love it. Looking forward to 1.5, where we'll hopefully get our house bought together and make a proper life.
some info to save someone else from having to look it up
1 400 000 000 was 5/13/2014, 11:53:20 AM
1 600 000 000 will be 9/13/2020, 7:26:40 AM
1 000 000 000 was 9/8/2001, 8:46:40 PM
2 000 000 000 will be 5/17/2033, 10:33:20 PM
2^32-1 (4 294 967 295) will be 2/7/2106, 12:28:15 AM
100 million seconds is a little over 3 years
1 billion seconds is almost 32 years.
I've been programming for a billion seconds since the timestamp was in 500 M. Good ol days with Turbo Pascal and Clipper Summer 85, now it's all about Swift and Kotlin.
I've conjectured before that 9-11 happenening so close to the epoch flip was deliberate, as a hint that middle-east radicals weren't really disorganized, saber-wielding incompetents as Hollywood portrayed them.
I had assumed there would be an error in there about forgetting that years don't have an integral number of days, but even at exactly 36500 days per century, a nanocentury is still over 3.15 seconds.
It's also equal to 3 seconds within an error of 5.2%, which is also more than good enough for casual uses.
But when you're having fun with pi, you generally measure similarity in terms of being accurate to some number of decimal places, and this statistic is accurate to an unimpressive one place (3.1).
I remember staying up late (uk time), watching the seconds on my 17" 4x3 cry running on Debian tick over to 1e9 back in September 2001, with slashdot open on the side.
Now, 500 million seconds later I'll be watching the counter on an ubuntu laptop. Not quite as late as I'm in Washington DC on business, and I abandoned /. a couple of years ago.
It amazes me how much changes, but also how little things change.
Wow, in the last 100M seconds I've gotten married, bought a house, had two kids, graduated college, started my own company. That's one heck of a metric.
And only 7,494 days, 5 hours, 22 seconds until timestamp -2,147,483,648 (assuming your system uses the original Unix signed 32-bit integer time format).
Back in 2001 my social circle had a "gigasecond party" where we got together to cheer the moment of 1000000000. Like New Years, except that it was during the afternoon.
My wife and I calculated her 1 billionth second of life and observed the moment (I was already past mine when we thought of the idea). It occurs at 31.7097919838 years of age.
This post was for shirt time period first on hacker news. More than 2k people arrived during first hour. For more details you can check my analysis - https://goo.gl/iKM3kV
Hoping the 1,500M era is nothing but good memories of getting my hands dirty again.