[geeks] You know you're an OpenVMS fanatic...

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 03:21:20PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 03:15:23PM -0400, Ross Alexander wrote:
> > You know what happened on November 17, 1858.
> What happened?

Beginning of time.  VMS uses 1858-11-17T00:00:00Z as its epoch, which is, I
think, the day that the US Naval Observatory was opened.

> > You know the corect way of writing a date is
> > DD-MMM-YYYY.
> Why in the world?

Because unlike DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY it is unambiguous.  VMS predates
ISO 8601 so we'll let them off for having their local standard varying
from the proper notation.

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