[geeks] Re: State Contracts

[Gavin Hubbard]

Don't feel like a schmuck - it is a bit obscure.

On VMS system the Epoch time is set to 00:00:00 on November the 17, 1858 (or 1858-NOV-17 in VMS format). This is the base date of the U.S. Naval Observatory's ephemerides (google will give the details, but basically it is a reasonably unique astronomical conjunction).

On a Mac system, the Epoch time used to be 00:00:00 on January 1st 1904. I don't know if this is still true for the BSD-derived OS X.

Regards,

Gavin


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> I know i'm gonna feel like a schmuck for asking, but what
> is significant about that date?
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> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 4:03:58 +1300
> Gavin Hubbard <ghub005 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
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> > Real men know that time began on 1858-NOV-17 :-)
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> > Pay no attention to the January 1, 1904 heretics...
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> > Regards,
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> > Gavin
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