Sunday, December 19, 2010

Today, +/- n days

Searching on google and stackoverflow wasn't much help; also, "man date", "man cal", "man calendar", "man time", etc are limited in there accuracy; so here:

What is today's date plus n days, let's say 61 days*?:
date -v+61d
Answer:
2011-02-18
Calendar marked.

*: This is the question that came into my head after reading this.

While I applaud them for making a testable claim, I doubt this. The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones. But who knows, this time may different. Maybe some of us will have to start carrying around unmemorizable IPv6 addresses. Maybe we'll find a way to memorize them. Maybe IPv4 really was a gross underestimation of our capacity for connectedness (and maybe IPv6 isn't). We shall see; and thankfully soon.

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