Epoch's for time_t
Dean Inada
dmi at peregrine.peregrine.com
Thu Nov 17 08:25:40 AEST 1988
In article <2199 at cuuxb.ATT.COM> dlm at cuuxb.UUCP (Dennis L. Mumaugh) writes:
>
>In article <27432 at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> lum at bat.cis.ohio-state.edu
>(Lum Johnson) writes:
> The epoch you're referring to is probably 0000 GMT
> 17-Nov-1858, the same as for pdp-10 monitors with which I am
> familiar. The date was chosen by someone at The Smithsonian
>
>Actually the epoch is the founding of the Smithsonian
>
>I claim there is one "logical" epoch and that is the one the
>Julian date is based upon. It is located back in the time of
12:00 GMT 16-Nov-1858 is Julian day 2400000.
A very millennial epoch for the founding of the Smithsonian, n'est-ce pas?
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