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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.

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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

—Vincent Van Gogh