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There are so many reasons to love Valentine’s Day.  My favorite is that on 2/14/09 the Unix Time will be 1234567890.  This happens at exactly 00:31:30 CET.  Yeah – it’s a little bit of a cheat since CET = GMT+1 and – correspondingly – it will still be 2/13/09 in the United States.  Just another good reason to go to Paris for Valentine’s Day.  (Thanks ScottM).

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    Lovely!

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    Sweet- in other numerically interesting date news I stumbled upon this site the other day- http://exponentialtwosday.comhas a countdown to the next exponential day – which will be a few days before Valentine's Day in the year 2048!

  • rab

    Sounds like a good enough reason to take that Friday off, too. 1234567890 happening on Friday the 13th in the US ought to enable a claim of superstition at least. Besides, you'll need the time off to catch that early flight to Paris ;-)

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    I remember as a kid excitedly gathering around my dad's digital watch for 01:23:45 6/7/89. Talk about cheating, we missed it, so we set it back and tried again…

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    But back then Ezra, we knew no better, and probably didn't have anything more pressing to turn our attentions to :P

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  • Dave Weidner

    I tried telling my wife (a non-techie) about this, and all I got was a blank stare. :) Maybe I should mention the Paris thing.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Randall_Krause Randall_Krause

    It's interesting that it took so long for the wave of interest to catch on about this date. I remember blogging about the rollover to 1,111,111,111 back in March of 2005. And I've been looking forward to February 13, 2009 ever since.

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    We will soon witness the last significant numerological date in computer history during our lifetime (using decimal notation at least, so long as the standard for Unix time maintains signed 32-bit integers).

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    It's interesting that it took so long for the wave of interest to catch on about this date. I remember blogging about the rollover to 1,111,111,111 back in March of 2005. And I've been looking forward to February 13, 2009 ever since.

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    We will soon witness the last significant numerological date in computer history during our lifetime (using decimal notation at least, so long as the standard for Unix time maintains signed 32-bit integers).

  • brito

    The time on milliseconds is much more accurate. 13 digits, arranged like so: 1234567890123 translates to Friday 13th, 21:31:30 GMT.

    Also, to chip in with superstition, check out the relationship of the Knights Templars with this date and what the age alignments really mean…

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    One second later it will be 1234567891011

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    i remember this… i actually have a screenshot of this time, when i took it on my comp as i set my timezone to CET! :P

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