2 Gigasecond Party, Friday January 20

This page will be updated frequently (last update 2017/01/21 1830 PDT). Questions to keithl AT keithl DOT com

Timeline

Friday January 20, at 10:17:53 AM Pacific Standard Time is 2 billion (2.000e+09) seconds after my birth certificate claims I was born. I cannot confirm this, I did not have an accurate watch at that time.

keithl-seconds

Clock time

event

notes

-4.35e17

8:00am PST ????/10/22

beginning of Universe (Saturday in late fall)

some disagree about year

-647 127 900

12:00pm EST 1933/03/04

Eleanor Roosevelt becomes first lady

my mother did not vote for her husband

0 000 000 000

7:45am PDT 1953/09/05

<:( Saw my first doctor, cried

Eleanor Roosevelt was not informed

0 500 880 784

2018UTC +04s 1969/07/20

Apollo 11 Lunar Landing, wasn't there

0 870 988 503

1200UTC +03s 1981/04/12

First space shuttle launch, was at press site

1 000 000 000

11:31am 28s EST 1985/05/14

Philadelphia city block in cinders after police bomb

11 dead, hundreds homeless, no party

1 884 556 900

02:31pm 40s PDT 2013/05/25

elevator ride with Buzz Aldrin, ISDC 2013 San Diego

won't sign MIT thesis (rendezvous)

1 999 890 827

12:00am FJT 2017/01/20

Friday in Fiji

1 999 962 827

12:00am PST 2017/01/20

Friday in Beaverton, finish this wiki page

older page revisions here

1 999 984 427

6:00am PST 2017/01/20

|-) Sleeping, come back later

1 999 995 327

12:00pm EST 2017/01/20

:-( Please, I don't want to talk about it

1 999 995 387

12:01pm EST 2017/01/20

X-( Really, I mean it. DON'T, or I'll use more smileys

1 999 998 927

10:00am PST 2017/01/20

You are welcome to arrive early and help set up

2 000 000 000

10:17am 53s PST 2017/01/20

We will probably forget to look at clock

set alarm clock, looked at each other.

2 000 002 000

10:51am 13s PST 2017/01/20

One ppm older, and still fit as a fiddle

how fit is a fiddle?

2 000 013 327

2:00pm PST 2017/01/20

Official start time for slackers

2 000 027 727

6:00pm PST 2017/01/20

Official start time for employed people

2 000 031 327

7:00pm PST 2017/01/20

Raffle of cub scout uniform

winner: Derica Theobald, age 10

2 000 034 927

8:00pm PST 2017/01/20

Raffle of host's clothing (hostess has only ticket)

2 000 042 127

10:00pm PST 2017/01/20

Leave or wash dishes

2 000 044 527

12:00am PST 2017/01/21

You are sleeping at home, not here, go away

2 000 050 227

2:35am PST 2017/01/20

actual departure of last three guests

(talked, did not help with dishes)

3 000 000 000

12:03pm ??s PDT 2048/09/28

3 Gs party, mark your calendar!

Space and Time Coordinates

Directions to 4180 sw 99th Beaverton (actually West Slope).

Computing 2 gigaseconds.

Duration Calculator be sure to correct for DST, September was DST when I was born.

There have been 27 leap seconds added to the UTC clock since 1972, when this practice began. These leap seconds are included in the calculations above. Programmers hate leap seconds, and want to redefine the UTC day. Physicists and astronomers prefer precise standard units. We will have at least one physicist, one astronomer, and many programmers at the 2Gs party. This will be the officially approved controversy to argue about at the 2Gs party, not other events happening on July 20.

More Trivia

The standard second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom. So I will be 18 385 263 540 000 000 000 cesium 133 atom oscillations old. Except that the first caesium clock was built by Louis Essen in 1955 at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, so no cesium atoms have oscillated in any known clock as long as I have oscillated around the Sun.

2GsDetails (last edited 2017-01-22 02:41:55 by KeithLofstrom)