Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ut-sally!utah-cs!utah-gr!uplherc!sp7040!obie!wsccs!dave
From: dave@wsccs.UUCP (Dave E Martin  "VAX Headroom")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Printing file age from DCL
Message-ID: <231@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 22:29:01 GMT
References: <8802152352.AA08946@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Lines: 13
Summary: 1858

In article <8802152352.AA08946@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, graham@DRCVAX.ARPA writes:
> quadword is the number of 100 millisecond chunks since midnight, 17 
> November 1858.  (Don't ask!)

This was the time when the current calendar was accepted for use.

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