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From: kenny@albert.ai.mit.edu (Kenny Goldman)
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Subject: Re: UUCP status files and wierd dates.
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Date: 14 Nov 90 23:26:12 GMT
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Yah..  I think what that huge number represents is the number of seconds elapsed
since UNIX's "birth" of sorts.  I believe the date/time was something to the
effect of January 1, 1970 UTC (Greenwich Mean Time) - If you want to sit there
and divide, go ahead, but I think that's right :-)

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