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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:03:13 +0930

Re: [UNIMPORTANT] 3000th day of linux

Daryl,


Further to this point, I think there should
be an international "Linux 3000 day".
And there should be an objective to take over
50% or more of desktops/laptops/servers before "Linux 4000 day".

JF Kennedy set a goal of going to the moon.
And it happened. So maybe linux 4000 day will see
MS applying for protection from creditors before
going into liquidation.
Poor old Queensland schools -- they'll still have to
be "trained" on MS software until about 2005
as part of the MS "hook them while they're young"
strategy.

==========================================================
wwwbkp/www> python
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Jul 23 1999, 06:38:16)  [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs- on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import time
>>> time.ctime(time.mktime((1991, 9, 17 + 3000, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)))
'Sat Dec  4 01:00:00 1999'
>>> time.ctime(time.mktime((1991, 9, 17 + 4000, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)))
'Fri Aug 30 00:00:00 2002' 
==========================================================

Ergo, linux has until Friday 30 August 2002 to take over
half of all desktop/laptop/server computers.

Thanks for showing me that "python" is good for something.
I had thought that it was just another script language.
The inclusion of a calendar date library makes it worth
using if only for that. It will save me having to
write my own.

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

======================================================================
> From dt@picknowl.com.au  Tue Sep 21 09:52:11 1999
> From: Daryl Tester <dt@picknowl.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [UNIMPORTANT] 3000th day of linux
> To: akenning@dog.topology.org (Alan Kennington)
> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:53:54 +0930 (CST)
>
> Alan Kennington wrote:
>
> > My rough calculations indicate that 3000 days after
> > 17 September 1991 must be Saturday 4 December 1999.
>
> [root@orac rfc]# python
> Python 1.5.1 (#1, Mar 21 1999, 22:49:36)  [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Li on linux-i386
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> >>> import time
> >>> time.ctime(time.mktime((1991, 9, 17 + 3000, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)))
> 'Sat Dec  4 01:00:00 1999'
>
> Give that man a cigar! :-)
>
> Cheers,
>   DT

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