On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:38:07 -0800 (PST), Gerald Kelleher <geraldkelleher02@gmail.com> wrote:
>It is almost three decades on the usenet and my workplace.

p.s. countdown timers (and probably sports betting, office pools, etc.)
are beginning to appear over google's imminent demise from usenet news

(using Tor Browser 13.0.9, my local system time 00:00-24:00|MT/UT-7) . . .
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20240222T00&p0=1241&msg=Google+Groups+Shutdown&font=slab&csz=1
>Google Groups Shutdown
>22 days 09 hours ... minutes ... seconds
>Time until Thursday, February 22, 2024 (Mountain View time)
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(using Tor Browser 13.0.9)
https://github.com/df7cb/sdate/issues/9
>Custom epoch with (day != 1) or even more generalised ones? #9
>Open drawkula opened this issue 12 hours ago * 0 comments
>drawkula commented 12 hours ago
>Trigger:
>Can we please get an additional epoch for GG's "Usenet suicide"?
>Alternative:
>Would Unix seconds as means to define a different epoch work?
>Everyone could have any epoch then?
>(-: At least until someone demands nanoseconds as resolution... ;-)
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a cheerful lying in state ceremony could be held after the 22 february
deadline ... here lyeth google2news ... diis manibus ... rest in peace
__________________ __________________
/ \ / \
| | | |
| Deja-News D.M. | | Google2News D.M. |
| Diis Manibus | | Diis Manibus |
| 12 February 2001 | | 22 February 2024 |
| R.I.P. | | R.I.P. |
| | | |
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
a group seance by candlelight using a ouija board at midnight during a
full moon while holding hands might work... necromancy is big business