@skaverat Also, what's it like being Unix Jesus?

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For those that do not get the idea:

Try this on your Linux console:

date -d '@0'

@skaverat @dangoodin No, but TONS of my friends have Facbook birthdays on that day 😎

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No, I was born 23 days later. My problem has been that, as an "II" suffixed person, a lot of data aggregator database owners have merged my information with my dad's (more his into mine). The most jarring of which was a recruiter reaching out to me a couple years after my dad died because he had a resume with my contact information but both of our technical backgrounds.

@skaverat Most common implementations of time_t use a signed integer, so it's trivial to track last dates. So I would be surprised if anyone had issues, and would be curious to hear about this as well.

1969-12-31 23:59:59 UTC would be -1 which I can see being easily confused with an error but anything other than -1 is pretty clear.

@skaverat 🎶 I was born…
In the negative times…
Except for SAS…
10 years in the past… 🎶

https://pharmaverse.github.io/blog/posts/2024-07-08_unix_vs_sas_date.../unix_vs_sas_datetime.html

@skaverat I’ve shamelessly used 1970-01-01 as a birthdate for years on basically anything that doesn’t genuinely require it for legal reasons.

I can tell you the number of sites/apps that refused to take it is definitely more than zero, but also not high. I could probably count them on one hand with fingers to spare.

@skaverat I am reminded of this gem