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• UNIX was half a billion (500000000) seconds old on Tue Nov 5 00
  53:20 1985 GMT (measuring since the time(2) epoch). -- Andy Tannenbaum...
• UNIX will be half a billion (500000000) seconds old on Tue Nov 5 00
  53:20 1985 GMT (measuring since the time(2) epoch). -- Andy Tannenbaum...
• epoch: [UNIX: prob. from astronomical timekeeping] n.
  The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values....
• epoch n. [Unix: prob. from astronomical timekeeping] The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values.
  Under most Unix versions the epoch is 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970...
• Universe, n.: The problem. -- Andy Tannenbaum
• Quote #352 Actually, Posix requires that leap seconds be ignored
  ee IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 section 2.2.2.106 (page 22 lines 448-458)....
• It's 00:00 GMT. Do you know where your PC is?
• Quote #577 UNIX: measuring in inconvenient units since 57,974,400!
  -- slashdot .sig of Colin Baye...
• UNIX error: terminal will explode in 5 seconds. Please evacuate.