Unix timestamp : 1300000000
Its a Friday, so .. The unix timestamp of 1300000000 seconds since the epoch had an eery repitition of 13's in its real datetime form : mysql> select from_unixtime(1300000000) mysql> 2011-3-13 13:06.666 PS : I wonder how they settled on 1-jan-1970 as "The epoch" ?
in python erastus@tide:~/dev/py/cassandra$ python Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 15:52:39) [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import time, datetime datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1300000000) datetime.datetime(2011, 3, 13, 10, 6, 40) time.mktime(datetime.datetime.now().timetuple()) 1301054024.0
On Friday, March 25, 2011, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
Its a Friday, so .. The unix timestamp of 1300000000 seconds since the epoch had an eery repitition of 13's in its real datetime form : mysql> select from_unixtime(1300000000)
mysql> 2011-3-13 13:06.666 PS : I wonder how they settled on 1-jan-1970 as "The epoch" ?
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My thinking... Before 1-jan-1970 personal computers or even widespread computing devices did not exists. I guess only government or large corporations had them. 1 Jan 1970 was the beginning of computing just as 0 Ad was time when Christ was born. MK
31st Dec 1969 at 2359 hrs Unix (Unics as it was called) was born. Hence the name UNIX time stamp
I beg to differ. Was UNIX/UNICS born in a day (the 1st of jan 1970)? The question though only meant to seek out why the unix epoch was set at that date, and none other. On 25 March 2011 11:06, James Nzomo <kazikubwa@gmail.com> wrote:
31st Dec 1969 at 2359 hrs Unix (Unics as it was called) was born
When i say born i refer to Released. Checkout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX and CTRL+F for "Initial release" Its 1969 just like i posted
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