= 2 Gigasecond Party, Friday January 20 =
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== 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                || [[  CathyLofstrom | my mother ]] did not [[VoteMCJ | vote ]] for her husband ||
|| 0 000 000 000 || 7:45am PDT 1953/09/05    || <:( Saw my first doctor, cried ||[[ https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1953&_f=md002639 | Eleanor Roosevelt was not informed ]] ||
|| 0 500 880 784 || 2018UTC +04s  1969/07/20 || [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11 | Apollo 11 Lunar Landing, wasn't there ]] ||
|| 0 870 988 503 || 1200UTC +03s  1981/04/12 || [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-1 | First space shuttle launch, was at press site ]] ||
|| 1 000 000 000 || 11:31am 28s EST 1985/05/14 || [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE | 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 [[  http://wiki.keithl.com/2Gs?action=info | 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).

[[ Gigasecond | Computing 2 gigaseconds.]]

[[ https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=9&d1=5&y1=1953&m2=1&d2=20&y2=2017&h1=6&i1=45&s1=0&h2=10&i2=18&s2=2 | Duration Calculator ]] be sure to correct for DST, September was DST when I was born.

There have been 27 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second | 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.