2008-01-12T22:59:02 Holidays in unix seconds: I just missed the turning of the unix clock from 1,199,999,999 to 1,200,000,000. It happened last Thursday.
I remember the IRC party for the billennium- lots of people had big ascii art to roll by when their clock said we were going from 999,999,999 to 1,000,000,000 (timezones don't matter, but there are plenty of sync and delay issues on IRC). That was on 2001-09-08, a week which probably won't be remembered for the unix billennium.
1,300,000,000 is in about 3 years, but (aside from the billennium, which could have led to some breakage) these decmial holidays are just for entertainment. The year 2038 is another story, though. Read about the year 2038 bug or 2038bug.com.
