Hi,

If you are looking for something to celebrate today, the 14th July 2017, then there's always the storming of La Bastillehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille.

If this doesn't appeal, and you are looking for something a little more global, then there is a minor milestone in Unix epoch timehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time. For NZ this will occur today at 14:40. It is when Unix time ticks over the 1.5 billion seconds mark.

$ date --date="@1500000000" Fri Jul 14 14:40:00 NZST 2017

If you can't think of anything else to do then you can watch it happen here... https://www.epochconverter.com/ ...or repeatedly enter this on your console... $ echo "How many seconds to go:" $((1500000000 - $(date +%s)))

If this event is a little low key, and you'd rather wait for it to tick over the 2 billion mark, then you'll have to hold off with the celebrations for another 16 years...

$ date --date="@2000000000" Wed May 18 15:33:20 NZST 2033

Cheers to another 1.5 billion seconds and many more. Ian.