On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 09:18, patrick keshishian<pkesh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Woodchuck<mar...@pennswoods.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:11 AM, patrick keshishian<pkesh...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Woodchuck<mar...@pennswoods.net> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Mikolaj
Kucharski<miko...@kucharski.name>
> wrote:
>>>>> Calendar told me that Unix billennium was today, but Wikipedia and
>>>>> date(1) command say something different.
>>>>>
>>>>> Calendar wrote:
>>>>>> Jul 09 B  B  B  B Unix billennium begins at 01:46:40 UTC, 2001
>>>>>
>>>>> $ date -r 1000000000
>>>>> Sun Sep B 9 02:46:40 IST 2001
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> References
>>>>> B 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_billennium
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> best regards
>>>>> q#
>>>>
>>>> [m...@marcus 0.5.0 1:1749]$ date -r 1000000000
>>>> Sat Sep B 8 21:46:40 EDT 2001
>>>> [m...@marcus 0.5.0 1:1750]$ date -ur 1000000000
>>>> Sun Sep B 9 01:46:40 UTC 2001
>>>> [m...@marcus 0.5.0 1:1751]$
>>>>
>>>> Got to watch that time zone!
>>>
>>> "watch" the month.
>>
>> Ah, so. B Calendar is wrong, then.
>
> Possibly, or more likely the entry in ~/.calendar is incorrect.

Not really. It's just meant to mark the anniversary, not saying "today
is the day" of the Unix billenium. Look through
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.computer, lots of entries like that, just
marking the anniversary of some historical significance, not the exact
date.

Regards
Morten Liebach

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