Re: [SLUG] have a happy 1234567890!

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Feb 13 2009 - 21:06:15 EST

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Eben King wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Pamela J. Ashworth (webmail) wrote:
>
>> Stop! Unix Time
>> Because the world will only turn 1,234,567,890 once
>>
>> facebook
>> http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=10378926406&ref=nf
>>
>> website
>> http://www.coolepochcountdown.com/
>
> eben@pc:~$ date +%c
> Thu 12 Feb 2009 06:58:03 PM EST
> eben@pc:~$ date +%c --utc
> Thu 12 Feb 2009 11:58:09 PM UTC
>
> OK, so EST=UTC-5. Put this in a file:
>
> ,--
> | #! /bin/sh
> |
> | sleep 20
> | watch -n 1 --no-title "date '+%c %s' >> /tmp/datelog" &
> | watchpid=$?
> | sleep 20
> | kill $watchpid
> '--
>
> Make the file executable. Schedule it to be run at 13 Feb 2009 18:31. "at"
> is what I used, since I only want it to run once. If /tmp might get cleaned
> before you get around to looking at the log, put the log elsewhere. I hope I
> did this right, lest I miss it.
>
> I remember 1:23:45 6/7/89 ...

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| Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:31:40 -0500
| From: Eben King <eben@pc.home>
| To: eben@pc.home
| Subject: Output from your job 6
|
| Error opening terminal: unknown.
'--

Crap. 

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He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool;
   and he who dares not is a slave.  -Sir William Drummond
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