the next exciting nerdly epoch time

[rone]

2⁰ through 2⁶: 1 2 4 8 16 32 64.

bender:~ rone$ date -r 1248163264
Tue Jul 21 01:01:04 PDT 2009

Put it in your PDA and get ready to PAR-TAY.

Comments

[thedarkages]

I will be 2^6 years old at the coming of the "second bilennium."

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

I won't still feed you.

[thedarkages]

You won't still need me, anyway.

[nothings.livejournal.com]

if by bilennium you mean 1024, i suggest a different neologism, since that one's already taken for 1,000,000 years.

kilo = SI prefix for 1000
kibi = invented prefix to mean 1024 in attempt to avoid confusion over how to interpret 'kilo' in a computer-memory-size context

So: kibinnium

Whose spelling we might as well alter to 'kibonnium' just for completeness.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

He's referring to the billennium referred in the Wikipedia link above, 2e9 seconds since epoch.

Also, the *bi- prefixes are an abomination and must be shunned.

[nothings.livejournal.com]

ah, I missed that.

obviously the *bi prefixes are an abomination; that's why i'm trying to reappropriate them.

Error

[thedarkages]

I should have specified the "second billennium," as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_t#time_t_parties. My error.

Re: Error

[nothings.livejournal.com]

for what very little it's worth, wikipedia distinguishes 'billennium' from 'unix billennium': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billennium

presumably one can argue it was clear from context