Re: Windows internals
At 18:41 23-12-97 +1100, you wrote:
>If you thought Unix's handling of the date, being seconds since
>Jan 1, 1970, in a 32 bit value, was weird, I quote your from the Win32
>API help:
>
>"The FILETIME structure is a 64-bit value representing the
>number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601. "
>
>Still, by my calculations, that should last us until the year
>60095. Perhaps there's something in the 95 :-)
>
>
>Hamish
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Actually, until February 27th 60095 AG.
(Of course, while AD stands for 'Annus Domini', AG stands for 'Annus
Gatesis', from Latin: Gates, Gatesis, etc.)
What is going to do the grand-grand-grand-...-grandson of Bill Gates on
February 28th of that remote year?
I guess he'll run to his local computer store to get Debian Release 2^128.
Best wishes from Northern Italy...
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