Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:52:15 -0500 From: Elliott Manley < Elliott@MoltenGold.com> Subject: INFO: Happy One Billionth Birthday Are you ready for the celebration? 1:46:40am (GMT) on the 9th September is Unix's billionth birthday. According to the Unix clock, time started at midnight on the 1st Jan, 1970 and has been counted in seconds ever since. At the above instant next month, the time will click over from 999,999,999 to 1,000,000,000. Then there's Internet Explorer, which uses a variation of Unix time but counts in milliseconds. At the same moment that clock will celebrate its trillionth birthday. Hey - a double party! Seriously though, at the risk of sounding like a Y2K doom-merchant (which I was!) it's worth checking that you will not have any clock-related problems next month. It is remotely possible, but very unlikely, that you might have a Javascript issue. Quite why your script might expect a 12-digit time and get upset by a thirteen digit one, I can't imagine. Slightly more likely - but still somewhat remote - is a cgi-related problem. One possibility I can think of is if you have automated the creation of files and name them with the time of creation and then list them alphabetically, the alpha list will no longer reflect the sequence of creation. -- MoltenGold Ltd Dedicated to e-commerce http://www.MoltenGold.com Winner of "Internet Works" Best e-commerce site ------------------------------ Hands-on Technolog(eye)s Touching The Internet http://members.home.com/poehlman1/ mailto:poehlman1@home.com voice: 301.949.7599