UNIX Epoch milestone

At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, UNIX time will reach 1,234,567,890.

For the uninitiated, UNIX time is based on the number of seconds since the “UNIX epoch“, which is 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.  Practically speaking, UTC actually means Greenwich Mean Time, but GMT is not used in technical contexts and was replaced by UTC (or UT1) in 1972.

To find out when 1234567890 time will occur in your local time, there are a few ways to do this right on the command-line:

date -d @1234567890

or

perl -e ‘print scalar localtime(1234567890),”\n”;’

For me, in PST timezone, it will occur: Fri Feb 13 15:31:30 PST 2009.  I wonder if 1234567890 has anything to do with it being Friday the 13th.