On: Unix Time reaches 1.7 billion

[koito17]

Dang, I missed this by roughly an hour :(

I still remember when we were at 1.2 billion seconds. Time flies.

While we're still here: my favorite way to appreciate the scale of million and billion is with seconds: 1 million seconds is approximately 12 days, whereas as 1 billion seconds is approximately 31 years.

[vecter → koito17]

Another fun one: pi * 1e7 seconds is approximately one year.

[Someone → vecter]

Easier to remember: “pi seconds in a nanocentury”

[x-complexity → koito17]

Lucky you: When I finally got onto HN, it's already been 2 hrs since then :(