[kall]

Hell.

If it were 2011, then i would have your answer...and it would be 'a palindromic number!'

Sadly, it isn't...and I have a txt document open with matricies (good luck finding someone else here who got clue #2) and stuff and it's all confusing.

9 is a square of 3, which is int here a few times...

*thinks out loud*

[Darkling]

Oh you're so close but still not quite there.

You've nailed clue #2 but have not factored in clue #3.

[Sparklechick]

Could we have a less geeky riddle please?

My brain is starting to hurt and it's the last day at work for me and it's not nice to have to use my brain too much.

[kall]

Originally Posted by Darkling

That is interesting but you must have missed the word "night"

That would make the time 23:31:30.



Clue #3a: There has been no spoon since midnight on the first of January in the year nineteen seventy.

Got it.

Very nice, but going the other way gives 1234566660.

[Darkling]

Originally Posted by kall

Got it.

Very nice, but going the other way gives 1234566660.

It shouldn't

I've gone both ways, if you'll pardon the expression, and they give the same answers.

That's 23:11:00

What conversion tool are you using?

[kall]

NM, you're right. I must have done something amiss.

http://javascript.internet.com/equiv...converter.html

Or...I could have set a vBookie event with that date and time and checked the db for the datestamp...but given that vbookie plays havoc with daylight savings, it might have been wrong anyway.

[Darkling]

http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm is the one I use.

You're probably the only one who stood a chance of working it out.

[kall]

You totally threw me with the spoon clue..I started putting the numbers into a 'matrix'.

Of course, the 1 jan 1970 bit was the giveaway.

[Darkling]

Originally Posted by kall

You totally threw me with the spoon clue..I started putting the numbers into a 'matrix'.

Of course, the 1 jan 1970 bit was the giveaway.

Yeah, that was rather blatant.

The spoon clue was supposed to make you thing matrix.
If you'd have run through the character list you'd have come to "Apoc" (terrible sound alike) but of course you know where that was heading now.

[Penny]

OK so for us no geeks whats the answer?

[Darkling]

Originally Posted by Penny

OK so for us no geeks whats the answer?

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 UTC is the time when a 10 digit Unix timestamp reads "1234567890"

[nih]

If I wasn't so lazy the first thing I would have done was take it to unix time. I swear.

[*ZenithalRavage*]

Originally Posted by Darkling

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 UTC is the time when a 10 digit Unix timestamp reads "1234567890"

I'm not a comp.n00b but I am a Unix n00b. How the heck does this unix time stuff work?

[Darkling]

Originally Posted by *ZenithalRavage*

I'm not a comp.n00b but I am a Unix n00b. How the heck does this unix time stuff work?

The Unix Epoch is midnight on the first of January 1970.

A Unix timestamp is a date/time given as a value of the number of seconds that have elapsed since this time.