Seinfeld Time

Counting from , the first airing of The Seinfeld Chronicles.

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seconds
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After Seinfeld Show
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UTC right now
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API

Convert any moment to Seinfeld time. In TCP, SYN initiates and ACK acknowledges. Here, hello,newman is the SYN, hello,jerry is the ACK.

1. Current moment in Seinfeld time (the SYN)

GET /api/hello,newman
curl 'https://seinfeldtime.com/api/hello,newman'

2. Convert an ISO timestamp (the ACK). Y2K midnight UTC, well into the ASS era.

GET /api/hello,jerry?iso=2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
curl 'https://seinfeldtime.com/api/hello,jerry?iso=2000-01-01T00:00:00Z'

3. Convert by epoch seconds. Unix epoch itself, deep in BS.

GET /api/hello,jerry?epoch=0
curl 'https://seinfeldtime.com/api/hello,jerry?epoch=0'

4. The pilot moment itself. Should return seinfeld_seconds 0, era ASS.

GET /api/hello,jerry?iso=1989-07-06T01:00:00Z
curl 'https://seinfeldtime.com/api/hello,jerry?iso=1989-07-06T01:00:00Z'

5. The finale air date, May 14, 1998 9pm EDT. Ought to land around 280 million ASS seconds.

GET /api/hello,jerry?iso=1998-05-15T01:00:00Z
curl 'https://seinfeldtime.com/api/hello,jerry?iso=1998-05-15T01:00:00Z'