We're still in the first half of a 13 month time and date extravaganza of events spanning August 8th, 2008 (8/8/08) to September 9, 2009 (9/9/09). Crazy eights kicked it all off and just recently we celebrated a leap second.
Today marks 1234567890 in Unix time. At 23:31:30 UTC (dinner time on the US East coast), we will have ticked away 1,234,567,890 seconds since Unix sysadmins started counting seconds. It all started on January 1, 1970 when the calendar rolled over and closed the era of the Space Race, free love, and no bras and exchanged it for hairy lambchops for the sides of men's faces, bell bottom pants, socks you could pull up to your knees, and well, lots of other stuff.
Ironically, Unix time started before UTC and Leap Seconds and even before they called it Unix. Happy 1234567890'ing!
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