Linux users of the world unite; Today is 1234567890 day. At 3:30pm PST Friday, Unix time will equal exactly 1234567890. It's the geek version of the year 2000.
If you already know what Unix time (UTC) is, then you probably should head over to one of the parties happening before the big event today in cities all over the world. The list of parties and a countdown timer is available at 1234567890day.com. Catch party and countdown updates at the UTC watch on Twitter.
If you aren't in the know but still want to participate, you should come equipped knowing that Unix time is the amount of seconds elapsed since January 1st, 1970 (not counting leap seconds) -- a relatively arbitrary date that is used by Unix-based systems to keep time. So 1234567890 in Unix time is a great excuse to get together with other like-minded penguin lovers, boogie down and debate the merits of GNOME or KDE, FreeBSD versus Ubuntu, Emacs versus Vi... you get the picture.
More on this and how to keep track of UTC over at Wired's Gadget Lab.
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