[tz] Unix time_t hits 1.5Gs early Friday UTC

[Brian Inglis]

Unix time_t will hit 1 500 000 000 at 2017 Jul 14 Fri 02:40:00+0000
which is Thursday evening in North America:

$ for city in Vancouver Edmonton Regina Winnipeg Toronto Halifax St_Johns; do
TZ=America/$city date -d at 1500000000 +%c\ %Z; done
2017 Jul 13 Thu 19:40:00 PDT
2017 Jul 13 Thu 20:40:00 MDT
2017 Jul 13 Thu 20:40:00 CST
2017 Jul 13 Thu 21:40:00 CDT
2017 Jul 13 Thu 22:40:00 EDT
2017 Jul 13 Thu 23:40:00 ADT
2017 Jul 14 Fri 00:10:00 NDT

and on some other time scales, which may not be aligned to UTC:

$ gpstime.sh @1500000000
2017 Jul 14 Fri 02:40:00+0000  JD 2457948.611111  MJD 57948.111111  ToD 9599
NTP 3708988800  Unix 1500000000  TAI-UTC 37  TAI-GPS 19  GPS-UTC 18
GPS We 1957  Cy 1 Wn 933  Wa 165 ToW 441618  DoW 5 ToD 9618

As usual there will be some Europeans staying up late to celebrate and party.

Unix time won't hit 1.5Gis until:

$ gpstime.sh @`bc <<< 2^30*3/2`
2021 Jan 14 Thu 08:25:36+0000  JD 2459228.851111  MJD 59228.351111  ToD 30336
NTP 3819601536  Unix 1610612736  TAI-UTC 37  TAI-GPS 19  GPS-UTC 18
GPS We 2140  Cy 2 Wn 92  Wa 92 ToW 375954  DoW 4 ToD 30354

and it will be a while before it hits 2Gs:

$ gpstime.sh @2000000000
2033 May 18 Wed 03:33:20+0000  JD 2463735.648148  MJD 63735.148148  ToD 12799
NTP 4208988800  Unix 2000000000  TAI-UTC 37  TAI-GPS 19  GPS-UTC 18
GPS We 2784  Cy 2 Wn 736  Wa 224 ToW 272018  DoW 3 ToD 12818

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada