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From: mnkonar@yaya.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar)
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Subject: Re: why 1904?  ms excel
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Date: 6 Sep 89 18:39:09 GMT
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In article <457a7553.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> edt@caen.engin.umich.edu () writes:
-Excel stores dates and times as serial numbers from 0 to 49710, where
-0 is the number for January 1, 1904, and 49710 is the number for February 6,
[stuff deleted]
-Why 1904?  I don't see why they chose that year rather than 1900 (which makes
-a little sense), or ibmpcs which have 1980 (the birth of the pc's) as 
-the start date.


January 1, 1904 is the earliest date that the Mac OS will represent.  I'm not
sure why or how this date was chosen.  It is curious though, isn't it?


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