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From: rolf@sparc1
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: What happened in 1904?
Summary: why does the Mac clock start at 1904?
Keywords: clock
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.131831.26890@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 90 13:18:31 GMT
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  You probably have noticed that if your battery gets removed, or the
PRAM gets zapped that you get some files with dates in 1904. I heard
a LONG time ago that there was a joke of some sort behind this.
   Anybody know it?