If anyone ever had any reason to fear Friday the 13th, tomorrow would be the one. This one is probably worse than the Large Hadron Collider coming back on line this Fall. Why?
Bell Labs reports that, “At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890.”
Where will you be at this momentous second?
It’s a sure sign of the Apocalypse to have that many numbers sequentially in a row representative of a point in time, yes? Who knows what will stop working? Will lex(1) cease to work, will yacc(1)s everywhere revolt? Will the rapture be upon us?