[sector777]

I remember 1e+9 because it shifted a log file over by 1 character. And less than a week later I was out of a job (travel industry).

[tqkxzugoaupvwqr]

Are these events related to each other?

[mulmen]

Was that a coincidence? Please don't leave us hanging.

[profmonocle]

1 billion Unix time was September 8, 2001.

[isostatic]

Sep 9th actually. 0146 GMT.

[ipince]

Don't you see? Whether one event led to another is not important. We don't need to know for sure. It's like the end of Inception.

[sector777]

Log file break/fix did not result in termination. But I probably wouldn't have remembered the former if it weren't for the latter.

[ceautery]

I've conjectured before that 9-11 happenening so close to the epoch flip was deliberate, as a hint that middle-east radicals weren't really disorganized, saber-wielding incompetents as Hollywood portrayed them.