UNIX New Year

This is a website that lets you celebrate UNIX New Year.

Background

As you may know, UNIX date/time is measured as the number of seconds since the 1st of January 1970, 00:00:00 UTC. If you express that number in hexadecimal notation, once every half-a-year-and-a-bit™ (16,777,216 seconds) the number will end in six zeros. These occasions I like to celebrate.

For example, UNIX time 0x56000000 was the 21st of September 2015, 13:02:56 UTC.

Here's an example of a UNIX millennium occurring:

Building

Development Build

Accesses assets from disk directly:

go build -tags=dev

Production Build

All assets are statically embedded in the binary, so it can run standalone in any folder:

go generate
go build

License

This repository is available under the terms of the BSD 3-clause license. It is based on the gopherpen project template, which is licensed under the MIT License. It also includes jQuery, which is also licensed under MIT.

Credits

The firework animations are based upon Roy Whittle's fireworks at javascript-fx.com.