Timekeeping in ANSI C

Gregory Conway gregory at ritcsh.UUCP
Sun Feb 14 16:06:16 AEST 1988


In article <1152 at ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>, rk9005 at cca.ucsf.edu (Roland McGrath) writes:
> ["Timekeeping in ANSI C"] - dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi):
> } Sooner than you can say "UNIX is a Trademark of ...", 47000 AD will be
> } here.  The greatest mistake a designer can make is to assume that a
> } certain date and time will never come.  Such short-sightedness has


You gotta be kidding us!  The year 47000 A.D.????  Assuming the human race
is still here, by that time we'll be talking interactively with computers
with "operating systems" that will make Un*x look like a small monitor.
Should we assume that was a typo?   :-)



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