Have a nice 1111111111 day

cog on 2005-03-18T09:39:16

That'll be today.

I first noticed that about 6 months ago, when I was thinking (just for fun) on logic bombs and came up with this one:

unlink${0}if$^T>1x10;

Nothing really fancy there :-)

Move along now :-)

Fun with time_t's

n1vux on 2005-03-18T21:30:57

The folks over at /. picked up on this too. (And got rather silly, as expected. PerlMonks act as if Y2K didn't happen because of the hype, instead of not happening because we fixed it first, which bugs me, but...) I rather liked their suggestion of celebrating Fibonacci day this summer, rather than waiting for the octal date or 1234567890. However in Network standard byte order, "BILL" o'clock is coming up soon, I like that, followed shortly by "Bill" o'clock.

$ perl -le 'for (qw{BILL Bill}){print "$_ ", scalar gmtime unpack("N*",pack("a*",$_)) }' ;
BILL Tue Mar 29 12:38:36 2005
Bill Fri Apr 22 21:28:12 2005

And many other words starting with B.

$ perl -nle 'next unless /^B...$/i; s/^b/B/;
    print $_,"-",scalar gmtime unpack("N*",pack("a*",$_));' /usr/dict/words |more
Babe-Sat Apr 16 19:07:17 2005
...
Beer-Tue Apr 19 20:09:22 2005
...
Byte-Thu May 5 01:18:29 2005
(All times are GMT=UTS. Replace gmtime with localtime to get your TZ.)

Note that April 16th is Astronomy Day 2005!

Looks like there are about two stretches of mostly pronouncable time_t's per year for a while.