Today Is EPOCH Day 15000

A great number of people wrote in to note that it's EPOCH Day 15000, so don't expect the post office to run, and I'm pretty sure the markets will be closed. And presumably your employer gave you a paid vacation day?

Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness

[suso]

And if Slashdot would have accepted my story earlier that I tried posting a few times, you could have joined in on the countdown [day15000.com] and parties. Somehow, I knew that Slashdot would do this. Posting things after the fact.

Nevertheless, we had a pretty good party [day15000.com] in Bloomington last night with around 40 people, DJ, free pizza, cake and so on. We all had fun and it was a good social outing. Maybe someone will post a picture of our Epoch Day 15000 party cake. If I could get my phone out of this funky state its in I could post a video.

Official Day 15000 website [day15000.com]

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[suso]

Hehe, slashdotting of that server is in progress. The load is at 37 and rising. It should come back.

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[suso]

137. Way into swap. Trying to recover. And believe it or not but I tried to make the machine beefy enough to handle this. Underestimated.

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[mbreitba]

Static pages FTW.

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[Neil Hodges]

I'd recommend either static pages (nginx) or a highly-scalable asynchronous dynamic web server (like Tornado).

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[Terrasque]

An alternative could be a Varnish [varnish-cache.org] in front, with lets say... 1 hour cache for anon users?

Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness

[memojuez]

It went down hard

The URL gives you this message

Hello Slashdotters and your almight power of click. Thanks for coming to the site. If you can wait about 30 minutes, we'll have it back up.

BTW, we tried to plan for a Slashdotting as much as we could when we setup the server for the site. Apparently still not enough.

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[suso]

Here we go, a picture of the cake. Nothing spectacular, but it was fun having it made and eating it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmakice/5389054539/ [flickr.com]

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[suso]

Here is a video of the countdown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDat2pZi07M [youtube.com]

Thanks Kevin Makice.

Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness

[StikyPad]

Hello Slashdotters and your almight power of click. Thanks for coming to the site. If you can wait about 30 minutes, we'll have it back up.

BTW, we tried to plan for a Slashdotting as much as we could when we setup the server for the site. Apparently still not enough.

I call BS. We all know nobody reads TFA. This post is a lie, just like the cake!

This explains it!

[goombah99]

Well obviously the Epoch switch delayed processing of your story. Moreover I suspect it also explains why the slashdot's look changed and now seems to be a broken interface, only showing some of the comments.

So that is why my fiancée came by!

[Suki I]

We usually don't have surprise dates on "school nights". I thought he just wanted to keep me away from the State of the Union Show so I would not be grumpy the rest of the week.

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[gstoddart]

Nevertheless, we had a pretty good party [day15000.com] in Bloomington last night with around 40 people, DJ, free pizza, cake and so on. We all had fun and it was a good social outing

Oh, I can only imagine just how off the scale the geek-meter was for that one.

Good times, good times. ;-P

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[PatPending]

In addition: if Slashdot had accepted your spelling of "epoch" (including in your sig) instead of using the acronym EPOCH, Slashdot might not have confused our European friends with the reference to the European Program On Climatology And Natural Hazards.

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[Straterra]

If I would have known about the party, I would have been there too.

Nice sysop response ... Re:Thanks Slashdot ...

[lawhack]

Hats off to the classy approach to being swamped by /. linkage: http://twitpic.com/3tmjo6 [twitpic.com] Grace under pressure. Cheers!

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[digitalPhant0m]

Don't you mean you invited 38 nerds and a couple homely fat chick's to celebrate geek day?

See people, this is what happens when Comic Con or Star Trek Con aren't in town, and the local dungeon master is on vacation.

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[KlomDark]

BORN on the EEEE-Pok!!

// Apologies to CCR

I congratulate your Epoch and raise it an Eon

[unity100]

By using "Appendages of Dawn", of course.

Of course my employer gave me a paid vacation day

[Nursie]

It's Australia Day you insensitive clod!

So EPOCH day 15000 was marked with a trip to the beach, beer and a barbie.

Re:Of course my employer gave me a paid vacation d

[garyok]

It's also Republic Day here in India too, celebrating them (I'm just visiting from London) finally ratifying their own constitution and throwing off the last of the laws imposed on them by the perfidious British oppressors. Having witnessed the independence of spirit and disdain for tyrannical rules most Indians exhibit on the road first-hand (like, you know, all driving the same way along a carriageway), I'm frankly amazed the Raj lasted longer than a day and a half.

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[Darinbob]

Over here it's "stop wasting time on slashdot and get back to work!" day.

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[laddiebuck]

Actually most of the laws are still in place. I mean, the legal foundation of India was built during the Raj (as were the railways and goodness knows what else).

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[morgan_greywolf]

Every day is a holiday somewhere in the world.

Today is also:

Duarte Day: Dominican Republic
Foundation Day: (Santos) Brazil
Republic Day: India

Earth Calendar for today [earthcalendar.net].

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[MikeDirnt69]

Anonymous Coward Day: Cowardland

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[rubycodez]

no, there are days that are not holidays anywhere. For example, 30 January 2011, not a holiday anywhere. It happens to be an "awareness day", World Leprosy Day, but that doesn't count as a "holiday".

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[decoy256]

You celebrated by "having" an 8 inch not-quite-human-proportioned plastic doll? You aussies have strange traditions.

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[PRMan]

It's Australia Day you insensitive clod!

So EPOCH day 15000 was marked with a trip to the beach, beer and a barbie.

You went to the beach with a tall, plastic blonde?

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[lazybeam]

So yes, a paid holiday for us! Though the 27th is now almost over...

Whats the big deal?

[rossdee]

Whats so special about the number 15000 ? I could understand if it was 10000 or 100000 or, for more binary based folks 16383 or 16384, but 15000?

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[eepok]

Moreover, what's the reason for counting days from an arbitrary date?

Re:Whats the big deal?

[MightyYar]

It's to fuck with future civilizations. Though, to be truly effective, you need an ominous and arbitrary end date as well.

It worked for the Mayans!

Re:End Date

[TaoPhoenix]

The Christians had Y2K, but nothing awful happened.

I'm a bit more frightened of the events leading up to the runup to 12-12-12 though.

(But does the Mayan ruckus count the calendar switch in the middle ages?)

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[lysdexia]

So when would you start counting?

I'm waiting for Epoch Second 1300000000

[ahecht]

I'm waiting for Epoch Second 1300000000, which will be Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:06:40 GMT

All those zeros will ease the pain of 2011 being the first year since 1977 that no one could make year-shaped glasses for new year's eve that actually allow you to see out of both eyes.

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[Jaxoreth]

All those zeros will ease the pain of 2011 being the first year since 1977 that no one could make year-shaped glasses for new year's eve that actually allow you to see out of both eyes.

What about 2010? It has the same issues as 2011.

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[Binestar]

http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-stop-trying-to-make-2010-party-glasses-happen/ [thefrisky.com]

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[jmac_the_man]

The glasses have to connect, right? Put eye one hole in the zero and one in between the two 1's. With appropropriately large serifs, they can pull it off.

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[Crudely_Indecent]

It's not even a particularly interesting timestamp: 1296021600 = Jan. 26th, 2011 00:00:00

The real day to watch out for is Jan 19, 2038 03:14:07 GMT

Somehow, I doubt it will be a huge party.

Drum roll please

[jabberw0k]

... it will be Back to the Future ...

$ date -d @2147483647 -u
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038
$ date -d @2147483648 -u
date: invalid date `@2147483648'
$ # That's 2^31 ... which will wrap to the negative:
$ date -d @-2147483648 -u
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 UTC 1901

... Thus leaving us in a time before motorcars and aeroplanes. Prophetic, perhaps.

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[KlomDark]

Bull shit - Doc Brown had two flying time machine cars (Even if he didn't realize it himself) back in 1888.

Not so prophetic.

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[Terrasque]

It's an excuse to party and have fun.

Like, "There's only Wednesday once a week, you know!" - Now, excuse me while I go out and celebrate this Wednesday :)

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[Idbar]

Hey! it's 15! that's like... 1111 in binary. But... multiplied by a thousand, which makes it thousand times cooler!

Nah, I'm with you. I have no idea what's the significance of 15000, perhaps it's just a zodiac thing.

Why celebrate according to the decimal system?

[TheEmptySet]

I'll be saving my champagne for Epoch day 16,384 (otherwise known as 2^14). A little under 4 years to go...

OP copied verbatim from

[rickb928]

Here... [techblogger.org]

Is CmdrTaco really as lazy as I am? That, my friends, is sad.

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[rickb928]

Pretty funny. It's recursive. I wonder where it started...

Darn

[grapeape]

I totally forgot to buy cards to send out.

hooray!

[guero]

echo $(( $( date +%s ) / 86400 ))

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[TerraByte13]

Results in 15000 Ah! Now I get it THANKS!

EPOCH success?

[peter_gzowski]

EPOCH fail! [xkcd.com]

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[PatPending]

I fail to understand what this has to do with the European Program On Climatology And Natural Hazards.

They spelled my name wrong...

[eepok]

It's spelled "e-e-p-o-k".

our lifespans are @30,000 days

[peter303]

With 10K epochs at 27, 54 and 82 years. I had the luck of noting one of my epochs. It was sobering.

RFC: Is it time to codify Epoch celebrations?

[svartbjorn]

RFC: Is it time to codify Epoch celebration traditions? What should they be? New Years eve has large parties, kissing someone at Midnight, Champagne, Time-Square, Dropping a large lit ball, Music, College Football Bowl Games,Rose Parade... So what is appropriate for Epoch day? First should major celebrations be a power of ten or a Power of Two? Since they come at less than one per years should the celebrations be bigger and more lavish? Come on Slashdotters, should we be honoring history? or should we ce

Wake me on 10-Nov-2014

[drjoe1e6]

That will be Day 16384. Much more suitable for a geeky celebration.

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[KlomDark]

2^15 day! Hurray!

===(0 0)===

I guess this is part of the new design

[rudy_wayne]

Apparently the new design of Slashdot include even more pointless stories.

Year 2038

[ideaz]

Did everyone forget the Year 2038 problem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem [wikipedia.org]

Bullocks

[formfeed]

15000?
Wake me up for 16384!
That's when we gonna party!

The UNIX ERA

[WorBlux]

Someday EPOCH time will be the what CE dates are today, especially if we start colonizing other planets.

The Y10K problem

[idlehanz]

And you thought Y2K was a big deal.