section_path: Notable events in Unix time
section_name: Notable events in Unix time
paragraph_text: Notable events in Unix time
  
  Unix enthusiasts have a history of holding "time_t parties" (pronounced "time tea parties ") to celebrate significant values of the Unix time number. These are directly analogous to the new year celebrations that occur at the change of year in many calendars. As the use of Unix time has spread, so has the practice of celebrating its milestones. Usually it is time values that are round numbers in decimal that are celebrated, following the Unix convention of viewing time_t values in decimal. Among some groups round binary numbers are also celebrated, such as +2 30, which occurred at 13:37:04 UTC on Saturday, 10 January 2004.
  
  The events that these celebrate are typically described as " N seconds since the Unix epoch", but this is inaccurate; as discussed above, due to the handling of leap seconds in Unix time the number of seconds elapsed since the Unix epoch is slightly greater than the Unix time number for times later than the epoch.