The world will end this Friday, at 11:31:30pm UTC

[fred rosenberger]

I think that's 4:30:30 pm JavaRanch time. Unix clocks will hit 1,234,567,890 milliseconds from epoch, AND it's Friday the 13th. Coincidence? I think not.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

fred rosenberger wrote:I think that's 4:30:30 pm JavaRanch time. Unix clocks will hit 1,234,567,890 milliseconds from epoch, AND it's Friday the 13th. Coincidence? I think not.

OK, that makes me feel old. I remember noting when the clock rolled over to ten digits for the first time, and actually fixing a bug related to that!

Hmm, maybe not so old. I guess that was only 7 years ago!

[Mark Spritzler]

Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:
Hmm, maybe not so old. I guess that was only 7 years ago!

Um, really???


So we can all use that logic. I can't believe new years for 2009 passed. I must be getting old. Oh, wait! that was just a little over a month ago, so I must not be old.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Mark

[Bert Bates]

I love stuff like this...

you guys watch your odometers for cool numbers (including palindromes)?

[Paul Clapham]

Yeah. I remember being 1 billion seconds old... that was quite a long time ago, I'm not so far from 2 billion now.

[Ulf Dittmer]

The world will end this Friday

Nice weather for it.

I remember celebrating my 10,000th birthday. By now, I should check how much to go until the 15,000th...

[fred rosenberger]

I'll be 15k days old on May 18th of this year.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Been there, done that. Looking at 20K next.

[Monu Tripathi]

fred rosenberger wrote:I think that's 4:30:30 pm JavaRanch time. Unix clocks will hit 1,234,567,890 milliseconds from epoch,....

"Orbiting this at a distance of rougly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."

(I dont intend to condescend or anything like that; just that this is what came to my mind when i read this thread!)

[Paul Yule]

although completely unrelated but something I find neat-o:

12,345,679 ---> No "8"
x8
------------
98,765,432

[Jesper de Jong]

So this evening, at 11:31:30 PM UTC, computers will become sentient and take over the world!

import java.util.Calendar;

public class Main
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
    	Calendar birth = Calendar.getInstance();
    	birth.set(1971, Calendar.AUGUST, 9, 17, 55);

    	long days = (System.currentTimeMillis() - birth.getTimeInMillis()) / 86400000L;
    	System.out.println("Jesper is " + days + " days old.");
    }
}

Aha, 13702 days today.

[Ryan McGuire]

Bert Bates wrote:I love stuff like this...

you guys watch your odometers for cool numbers (including palindromes)?

Heck yes!

Here's a quick math problem to start your week out right:

Bert's odometer reads 73937, which he notices with some amusement is a palindrome. If Bert drives 55 miles per hour, how long will it be before he sees another palindromic reading?

(The readings are in whole miles, no tenths.)

[fred rosenberger]

2 hours? he will have traveled an additional 110 miles, so his odometer would read 74047. I think... it's still early.

[paul wheaton]

This is sooooooo awkward ... existing and all ... what went wrong? (right?)

[Monu Tripathi]

Nothing happened (for me) on 13th of February. But a month later, on 13th of March(Friday again), the place I live received out of season rains and hailstorms.

[Jesper de Jong]

Just wait until Friday 13 April 2029... BOOM! (or not...?)