Peculiar Linux Time this Friday - Prepare to be Amazed

It may seem like a doomsday scenario or it could be just another peculiarly intriguing moment in the lives of geeky individuals among us.

XenStreet reports that on Friday the 13th, 2009, all Linux machines, which today power most of the internet including sites like Yahoo, Amazon, Google among other internet wonders, will report a ghastly time of "1234567890" in seconds.

The mystery behind this peculiar number is that all Unix and Linux machines calculate their time from January 1, 1970. On Friday the 13th, they would clock the peculiar second since the clock was activated.

If any of you have access to a Linux or a Unix machine, you can find out for yourself the current second that it is on and when it reaches the milestone. XenStreet provides a quick Shell Script to do just that.

Further, if you are interested to find out what would be the time in your city when this second strikes your computer, type the following to get the doomsday time.

perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'