1111111111

17 years ago
At the beep, the time will be 1111111111.
1111111111 = Thu Mar 17 17:58:31 2005 PST
Please make a note of it.
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21 Responses:

  1. strspn says:
    17 years ago at 4:59 am

    If you feel you have reached this recording in error, please recompile your kernel.... Oh, wait.
  2. pfrank says:
    17 years ago at 4:59 am

    That's eleven ones. Crazy.
  3. pavel_lishin says:
    17 years ago at 5:30 am

    Wow.
  4. uke says:
    17 years ago at 5:32 am 

    #!/usr/bin/env python
    import time
    while True:
       t = time.time ()
       print t
       time.sleep (1.11 - t + int (t))
    • wy1d says:
      17 years ago at 5:36 am

      I just have an xterm up with

      watch --interval 1 'date +%s'
      • otterley says:
        17 years ago at 5:39 am

        watch(1) on FreeBSD is for snooping on other terminals.

        while true; do date +%s; sleep 1; done

        should do the trick just as well, at least under Bourne shell derivatives.
      • uke says:
        17 years ago at 5:40 am

        Yeah but then you don't get the fractional part!
    • duskwuff says:
      17 years ago at 6:49 am 
      #!/usr/bin/env python
      import sys, time

      count_to = 1111111111
      divisions = 20.0

      while True:
        t = time.time()
        ct = count_to - t
        ch,ct = divmod(ct, 3600)
        cm,cs = divmod(ct, 60)
        print "\r%.2f (remaining: %dh %dm %.2fs)" % (t, ch, cm, cs),
        sys.stdout.flush()
        time.sleep(1.0 / divisions - t + int(t * divisions) / divisions)
      • edge_walker says:
        17 years ago at 10:52 am 
        #!/usr/bin/perl
        use strict;
        use warnings;

        use Gtk2 -init;
        use Glib qw(TRUE FALSE);

        my $label = Gtk2::Label->new( scalar time );
        $label->modify_font(
            Gtk2::Pango::FontDescription->from_string( "Monospace Bold 72" )
        );
        Glib::Timeout->add( 250, sub { $label->set_text( scalar time ); TRUE; } );

        my $window = Gtk2::Window->new();
        $window->signal_connect( delete_event => sub { Gtk2->main_quit } );
        $window->set(
        	title => 1111111111,
        	resizable => FALSE,
        	child => $label,
        );
        $window->show_all;

        Gtk2->main;
  5. mysterc says:
    17 years ago at 5:48 am

    ...But this one goes to 11.
  6. phoe6 says:
    17 years ago at 5:55 am

    #!/bin/bash
    while [ $(date +%s) != 1111111111 ]
    do
    echo "Not Yet!"
    done

    echo "Unix Time"
    date +%s

    echo "on `date`"

    echo "so we captured the history!"

    exit 0
  7. flipzagging says:
    17 years ago at 6:58 am

    I remember celebrating 1000000000. The seconds, where do they go?
  8. fo0bar says:
    17 years ago at 10:19 am

    Up yours and your stupid decimal notation.

    The next time we hit all 1s (in binary), it'll be the end of the world, aka Mon Jan 18 19:14:07 2038 PST.
  9. nemesisbecoming says:
    17 years ago at 10:33 am

    My eyes are bleeding from geek-ese.

    This post and its subsequent comments needs subtitles, or at least director's commentary.
    • jhf says:
      17 years ago at 8:32 am

      Time on unix is counted internally as the number of seconds from Jan 1st 1970. It will overflow 32 bits on the aforementioned date in 2038.

      Better, no?