Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)
On 04/02/2011 12:40 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
I've always thought that Unix Time is *incredibly stupid* (who the
heck says "Fri Apr 1 23:27:41 CDT 2011"?) and *monumentally
shortsighted* (did nothing happen before 01-Jan-1970?).
OpenVMS does it one of the two Right Ways of displaying time
(01-Apr-2011 23:27:41) and has an epoch date of 17-NOV-1858
00:00:00.00 (modified Julian date adopted by the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory for satellite tracking) and keeps time in a
signed 64 bit integer using 100ns resolution).
When, of course, the Smithsonian launched their first satellite! (Jules
Verne was a consultant.)
and I thought the silly season was yesterday--doug
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