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Reminds me of y2k, I was at a massive rave that night and my future wife bailed and didn’t want to go, I was on a pay phone with her doing the countdown and we were both a little disappointed we didn’t hear some static or cutting out or anything

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Bob_Spud@reddit

Some us were stuck in data centres waiting for the sky to fall in. As for 1777777777 its lunch time for me, I'll munch on it.

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ansibleloop@reddit

We're only 12 years away from Y2k38

I can see a lot of stuff breaking - underlying 32 bit components of a larger system just failing

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Mclarenf1905@reddit

It's going to be a nothing burger just like y2k

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8BFF4fpThY@reddit

y2k was only a nothing burger because billions was spent to make sure of it.

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Mclarenf1905@reddit

Yea and a ton of money has already been spent to migrate away from 32 bit time keeping. Fact is there just isnt nearly as much time crucial code as people make it out to be. Will some stuff break, sure that's a given, but there's not going to be some catastrophic failure and the migration in many many systems is very easy.

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HappyDadOfFourJesus@reddit

Back then I worked in academia networking, my boss and I had done all our testing six months prior, but our bosses were on edge about it, so we both scheduled automated emails to our bosses about fifteen minutes after midnight saying that everything looked good so we were calling it a night, even though we'd already been asleep for several hours by that point.

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neoh4x0r@reddit

Yeah, the Y2K-bug would have been a much bigger deal if no one had said anything about it.

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Frothyleet@reddit

It's like how the ozone layer was being destroyed by CFCs and in the 90s a bunch of countries banded together to ban them, and halted much of the destruction, and now people point to that as an example of "alarmism".

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skipITjob@reddit

Hence why people think it wasn't a problem.

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neoh4x0r@reddit

Better to let them think that way rather than sitting back and watching the world burn.

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Ssakaa@reddit

So I recently thought about this... and I think that may be incorrect. An awful lot of today's societal issues are completely built on the success of the Y2K mitigation.

If the IT world hadn't taken up that fight ahead of time, there would've been a lot of disruption in tech-dependent industries, banking, travel, etc. systems, many of which are still using "older" tech today. That bigger, visible, impact would've slowed markets and possibly even delayed or avoided the dotcom bubble collapse. Giving that first major tech bubble a smoother offramp might've protected our entire space launch industry, among other things, and might've slowed some of the "pivot to something more stable" knee-jerk that lead to heavier gambles in real estate and related lending, that caused the 08 crash. That first bubble smoothing out might've left more competition for the Google and Amazon world, maybe offset or delayed social media a bit, etc...

So all in all, maybe letting it all burn a bit then would've helped avoid everything burning now, at least, quite as badly as it is...

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neoh4x0r@reddit

I don't think that would have done any good....it's like decapitating someone to avoid them having to deal with their headache because they don't want to take any medicine.

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Ssakaa@reddit

It's less decapitation and more... breaking a few kneecaps to ensure the majority of the crowd can get away from the angry bear...

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JaspahX@reddit

Looking forward to Y2K38 myself.

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NotABadPirate@reddit

Exactly!! We broke our asses to make it a “nothing burger!”

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Antoine-UY@reddit

I am. Thanks for drawing my attention to it. You rock !

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Upstairs-Gur-6692@reddit (OP)

I almost missed it too but I also realized 1888888888 isn't too far as well

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8BFF4fpThY@reddit

1778675309 Is on the 13th - should we tell Jenny?

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Smooth-Zucchini4923@reddit

What do you mean? It's 4 years away.

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paishocajun@reddit

Considering Y2K was 26 years ago, 4 ain't that much

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winky9827@reddit

Over on the North American continent, 4 years seems like an eternity.

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badaccount99@reddit

And I feel old.

I got super drunk that night after having spent like a year upgrading things. Was fun and nothing broke!

But a ton of alter table commands and code changes to change stuff happened in advance and dumb people say y2k wasn't important. It was.

All our stuff would have been broken if we didn't get out in front of it.

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paishocajun@reddit

Yup, sadly the ol' maintenance curse of "shit's not broke, why do we pay you?" mentality

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natefrogg1@reddit

It’s why shit needs to fail sometimes, just joking of course (-:

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spaetzelspiff@reddit

And 2147483647 is only 8 years past that! 🎉

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paishocajun@reddit

What's that one?

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nugohs@reddit

The one just before -2,147,483,648.

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Smooth-Zucchini4923@reddit

🎶 Leeet's do the time warp again 🎶

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eaglebtc@reddit

It's just a jump to the left

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Upstairs-Gur-6692@reddit (OP)

I meant to say that 1777777777 isn't a once in a lifetime neat number. It's a bit late here

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RexxMainframe@reddit

How did I almost miss that?

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11b328i@reddit

What the fuck is a Unix epoch

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acurtis85@reddit

Seconds since Midnight January 1, 1970 which is how Unix keeps time.

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11b328i@reddit

Cool! Thanks

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goobervision@reddit

And the y2k bug was the count potentially rolling over to zero.

All UNIX and Linux based systems use this. From MacOS, Android and all the Linux and BSD platforms.

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cgimusic@reddit

No, that's not correct. Y2K affected systems that stored dates in regular Gregorian calendar representation but with a two digit year, meaning that the 1st of January 2000 (00-01-01) would appear older than the 31st of December 1999 (99-12-31).

There is a similar Y2K38 problem that will occur when the unix timestamp will overflow to 0 when stored as a 32 bit integer, but that will not occur until the 19th of January 2038.

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goobervision@reddit

correct, I mixed up my excitement for the next iteration for my retirement.

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heliox@reddit

For those wondering: date -u +%s

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ITAdministratorHB@reddit

oh no I just reset my computers time

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eaglebtc@reddit

https://www.epochconverter.com

Epoch Time. Not to be confused with Epoch Times (a right-wing newspaper owned by the Falun Gong)

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realhimdel@reddit

Soo, have we now officially entered the dark second era? The stretch of time between 1777777777 and 2000000000 that somehow feels way longer than a second?

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moneyfink@reddit

Fuck,

Fuck, what do I do now?

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knowsshit@reddit

Wait for 1888888888.

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marklein@reddit

I have plans for 7777777777

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phylter99@reddit

I missed it. Darn.

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pdp10@reddit

I remember the 1000000000s fondly.

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jacksbox@reddit

I remember being so excited at work for 1234567890 and no one cared.

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Deon555@reddit

Me too! I just looked it up and apparently

Parties and other celebrations were held around the world, among various technical subcultures, to celebrate the 1234567890 day.

I... was not invited to these parties apparently.

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bzaks1424@reddit

I wasn't either! Now it has me wondering if I'm such a big nerd that even the other nerds don't want to hang out with me...

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HappyDadOfFourJesus@reddit

I plan on being asleep.

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cfmdobbie@reddit

Can confirm, was asleep.

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Whitestrake@reddit

Slept right through it gang.

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zerries@reddit

Did we make it?

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j1mb0b@reddit

Nope. Welcome to the simulation...

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420GB@reddit

Best celebration

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breenisgreen@reddit

Just waiting for 2038. That one is gonna be … fun

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NoPossibility4178@reddit

That's the real one I want to see haha.

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PaintDrinkingPete@reddit

The real Y2K!

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1vim@reddit

Unix epoch celebrating itself. Most programmer holiday nobody put on the calendar.

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NerdyNThick@reddit

Fuck... Missed it.

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chuckycastle@reddit

I don’t get it

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Alexandre_Man@reddit

Can't wait for epoch 7777777777

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netizen__kane@reddit

Missed it by 4121 seconds

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blue_canyon21@reddit

Damn... Missed it by 32 minutes

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Upstairs-Gur-6692@reddit (OP)

I wanted to take a photo with the 1777777777 but it wasn't so lucky afterall. By the time i set up my camera it was well past. Anyway i'm going to sleep now. Happy 1777777777, Next stop: 1888888888

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dwil0000@reddit

That was cool. What's next?

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heliox@reddit

Woot! 🎉

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cjcox4@reddit

To see when in your localtime

$ date --date='@1777777777'
Sat May  2 10:09:37 PM CDT 2026

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1777777778
1777777779
1777777780

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Admirable-Zebra-4568@reddit

HELL YEAH!!! I'M GOING TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS AND DO /dev/urandom NUMBER OF SHOTS TILL I PASS OUT!!!!!

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Upstairs-Gur-6692@reddit (OP)

Dude can't even wait for /dev/random

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