Decoding the RPi serial number

1303594640 looks like an epoch timestamp to me

1303594640 looks like an epoch timestamp to me

Interesting theory, but that timestamp equates to April 2011 (before Pis started being manufactured), and the serial number on my Pi equates to a timestamp of November 2030

Just been doing some interesting investigation
Found the

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/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd otp_dump

option, which I'm assuming dumps the 256 bytes of OneTimeProgrammable memory stored inside the BCM2835 (doesn't display the first 28 bytes for some reason), formatted as 4-bytes per line. Most of them are zero, but line 28: contains the serial number of my RPi
So can everyone looking at this thread confirm that:

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cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^Serial | cut -d: -f2

and:

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/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd otp_dump | grep ^28: | cut -d: -f2

print out the same number? Seems like the RPi's serial number is 32-bit, even though /proc/cpuinfo displays it as 64-bit (i.e. with eight leading zeros).

Yup, both the same serial on those commands.

So can everyone looking at this thread confirm that:

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cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^Serial | cut -d: -f2

and:

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/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd otp_dump | grep ^28: | cut -d: -f2

print out the same number?

Yep. The second one doesn't have the leading zeros.