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This Friday, Unix time will reach 1234567890. Specifically, this will be the time at exactly 18:31:30 on Friday February 13th, 2009.
Another interesting Unix time also happens this Friday: 1234554321 which is at 14:45:21.
So whats the big deal? Its not. Its just interesting. That and sometimes people have parties on these dates.
What's Unix time? Its the number of UTC seconds since the Unix Epoch on January 1st, 1970 at midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). It is the basis for all times on Unix based operating systems.
Questions? I'm not surprised. Or an expert. Here is the Wikipedia page, which is pretty good (as of when I wrote this, and I have no doubt that it'll stay that way).