Happy pre mono digit alignment day
It's just a few hours until mono digit alignment day. That's when the we'll see the one and only mono digit alignment of the dignitary constellation of the UNIX timestamp. See, UNIX clocks tell time in the number of seconds from the beginning of an epoch (00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC). Right now for example, the time is 1111105320. At just before 6PM the digits will align and we will see 1111111111 as the date. Pretty cool. The next occurrence of this will be 2222222222 and there's a bit of a problem with that since it's after the max value for that offset at the moment (2147483647).
[patrick@sprout ~]$ date +%s 1111105320 [patrick@sprout ~]$