Disgrace ! Why wasn't this mentioned anywhere on the Ubuntu blogs ? As Intrepid Ibex is the current Ubuntu version, today, at 11:04:56 GMT, the Unix time_t value was "IBEX", that being the ASCII representation of the 32bit number of seconds since New Year 1970.


Other interesting upcoming dates :

IBEX  Fri Dec 12 11:04:56 2008 GMT 

ICON  Sat Dec 13 05:59:42 2008 GMT 

IDLE  Sat Dec 13 23:59:01 2008 GMT 

IDOL  Sun Dec 14 00:11:56 2008 GMT 

IEEE  Sun Dec 14 17:41:25 2008 GMT 

INCH  Sun Dec 21 13:23:20 2008 GMT 

INDY  Sun Dec 21 13:27:53 2008 GMT 

INFO  Sun Dec 21 13:36:15 2008 GMT 

IRAN  Wed Dec 24 14:03:58 2008 GMT 

IRAQ  Wed Dec 24 14:04:01 2008 GMT 

Fear not, dear Ubuntu supporters, the ubuntu teams get another chance, as the lowercase numbers still yet have to come :

Ibex  Mon Jan  5 19:54:32 2009 GMT

Ibis  Mon Jan  5 20:11:31 2009 GMT

Idea  Wed Jan  7 08:18:41 2009 GMT

Idle  Wed Jan  7 08:48:37 2009 GMT

Idol  Wed Jan  7 09:01:32 2009 GMT

Iran  Sat Jan 17 22:53:34 2009 GMT

Iraq  Sat Jan 17 22:53:37 2009 GMT