Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 04/02/2011 12:45 AM, Doug wrote:
> 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

Sigh.  The things that we stick up in orbit using rockets are *man-made* 
satellites.

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