journal features

1.5 billion seconds

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2017.07.13

Today I noticed something: we've passed through 1.5 billion seconds in the UNIX epoch. What's it mean? Nothing. But at some point today the time on UNIX systems was 1500000000.

rand()m quote

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery