[tz] Unix time_t hits 1.5Gs early Friday UTC

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis at SystematicSw.ab.ca> writes:

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

Thank you for this!  My tweet is getting a lot of traction:

    perl -le 'print scalar localtime 15e8'
    Thu Jul 13 19:40:00 2017

Of course, that will print the localtime in whatever timezone they are
in.

I followed it up with:

    perl -le 'print scalar gmtime 15e8'
    Fri Jul 14 02:40:00 2017

Just so that it was clear to everyone what was happening.
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