UNIX Epoch Clock

[Num7]

Ah, Unix time. The Unix Epoch.

I have a ThinkGeek Epoch Clock, but the power adapter no longer works. I haven't been able to find a replacement yet. It's pretty awesome. It displays the regular time and date, but also the UNIX time! It's not connected to the Internet or anything. It just converts its own internal time to the Epoch time.

Back when they were available online, they were about $50.



Now, in 2024, the only UNIX clock I could find online is the one below. It's costly ($299), but this time, it's fully connected to the Internet and syncs its time perfectly online, which is pretty rad.

From what I can see, though, it doesn't display regular time in human format. But who needs old boring human time, when you can have Unix time?

UNIX Epoch Clock

It's pretty awesome, but it's too bad it's so expensive. Unix clocks are quite rare.

In any case, John would be proud.

 

[JudasTitor]

I saw something similar that would make a good display for the C204.

 

[Jay Walker]

The 2038 problem is still a very real thing. Alot of things can still wrong. For instance, your insurance doesn't cover the total expense of a heart transplant surgery, so you get it done as cheaply as possible. Which probably means an older pacemaker that uses 16-bit integers. 2038 comes around... and "tick" "tick" "boom!"

 

[Traveler 25042]

The 2038 problem is still a very real thing. Alot of things can still wrong. For instance, your insurance doesn't cover the total expense of a heart transplant surgery, so you get it done as cheaply as possible. Which probably means an older pacemaker that uses 16-bit integers. 2038 comes around... and "tick" "tick" "boom!"

Not* saying 2038 isn't going to be a problem. It just won't be a problem in the same way Y2K wasn't a problem. By that I mean anyone that uses Unix and has a critical system will know long before 2038 whether or not their system is going to malfunction after rolling over. Pacemakers generally use Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs).

People aren't really running around with Unix in their chest. Also adding here because it sometimes seems to be a concern with 2038, nukes are analog. Even if they were upgraded over time, they would use ASICs (still not Unix / still not a future concern). The Internet of Things (smart fridges / smart barbies) will likely get hit harder.

 

[Jay Walker]

Not* saying 2038 isn't going to be a problem. It just won't be a problem in the same way Y2K wasn't a problem. By that I mean anyone that uses Unix and has a critical system will know long before 2038 whether or not their system is going to malfunction after rolling over. Pacemakers generally use Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs).

People aren't really running around with Unix in their chest. Also adding here because it sometimes seems to be a concern with 2038, nukes are analog. Even if they were upgraded over time, they would use ASICs (still not Unix / still not a future concern). The Internet of Things (smart fridges / smart barbies) will likely get hit harder.

Thank you, I feel like a wacky inflatable flailing arm tube man. I am sure by now you already realized I don't know what the hell you're talking about. TBH I was just trying to get someone to pull over to help a curious spectator on the side of the road. I am not trying to get views or post for shits and giggles; I am curious about Edward Nelson and why he isn't mentioned in stories about Mr._0. The guy's name is at the top of a patent application trying to trademark "John Titor." Then abandons it after a year. He was a mathematician of physics PhD professor at Princeton. He went to the grave while I can't tell if anyone asked him why he wanted that patent, alongside a Disney Producer goes by the name Joel Kostuch. (Appears at the bottom of the application)
I have many a question, but that one takes precedent. Sorry for interrupting or intruding, I have been fascinated with this story since 2017 when I first learned of it. I only started posting now because of the personal epiphanies John's posts have influenced, and I happen to have a little free time of late.
The reason I find Nelson's involvement in this intriguing, is he is one in just a small handful of people on the planet that would understand with some confidence the technical aspects of John's Posts. If he was trying to patent the name with Disney, that would have been very lucrative. Why abandon it? Did someone get in the way? Larry Haber perhaps?
If even half of what I am asking is true, John would be a one of a dozen in 7.91 billion people that could talk shop like that. Not to mention, he never tried to make money on this in 23 years. Never heard from again. I have a feeling; this is not over. John won't return, but his posts still light the internet up. Not for his failed sociological predictions that were things that happened where he came from and didn't happen here, that logically solidifies his claims, not debunk them. According to the one guy on the entire planet that could explain time travel in a way that for fucks sake actually made sense. Not even multi-million dollar movie franchises always had a gaping hole in the plot because of paradoxes that even Stephen Hawking couldn't make sense out of. Yet, this one dude? In a chat room when chat rooms were in their early adolescence, could?
That is not* highly unlikely. That is impossible.
Anyways, thanks for pulling over.

- Jay

[edited by Jay, same day]

 

[Traveler 25042]

Thank you, I feel like a wacky inflatable flailing arm tube man. I am sure by now you already realized I don't know what the hell you're talking about. TBH I was just trying to get someone to pull over to help a curious spectator on the side of the road. I am not trying to get views or post for shits and giggles; I am curious about Edward Nelson and why he isn't mentioned in stories about Mr._0. The guy's name is at the top of a patent application trying to trademark "John Titor." Then abandons it after a year. He was a mathematician of physics PhD professor at Princeton. He went to the grave while I can't tell if anyone asked him why he wanted that patent, alongside a Disney Producer goes by the name Joel Kostuch. (Appears at the bottom of the application)
I have many a question, but that one takes precedent. Sorry for interrupting or intruding, I have been fascinated with this story since 2017 when I first learned of it. I only started posting now because of the personal epiphanies John's posts have influenced, and I happen to have a little free time of late.
The reason I find Nelson's involvement in this intriguing, is he is one in just a small handful of people on the planet that would understand with some confidence the technical aspects of John's Posts. If he was trying to patent the name with Disney, that would have been very lucrative. Why abandon it? Did someone get in the way? Larry Haber perhaps?
If even half of what I am asking is true, John would be a one of a dozen in 7.91 billion people that could talk shop like that. Not to mention, he never tried to make money on this in 23 years. Never heard from again. I have a feeling; this is not over. John won't return, but his posts still light the internet up. Not for his failed sociological predictions that were things that happened where he came from and didn't happen here, that logically solidifies his claims, not debunk them. According to the one guy on the entire planet that could explain time travel in a way that for fucks sake actually made sense. Not even multi-million dollar movie franchises always had a gaping hole in the plot because of paradoxes that even Stephen Hawking couldn't make sense out of. Yet, this one dude? In a chat room when chat rooms were in their early adolescence, could?
That is not* highly unlikely. That is impossible.
Anyways, thanks for pulling over.

- Jay

[edited by Jay, same day]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯​

I will say though, this sector of the multiverse is lookin pretty Disney.