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From: tsf@arizona.edu (Ted Frohling @ CCIT-Telcommunications, University of Arizona)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Printing file age from DCL
Message-ID: <4174@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 88 16:11:45 GMT
References: <8802152352.AA08946@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <231@wsccs.UUCP>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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Summary: Time when the current calendar accepted??? Huh?

In article <231@wsccs.UUCP>, dave@wsccs.UUCP (Dave E Martin  "VAX Headroom") 
writes:
> This was the time when the current calendar was accepted for use.

What?  That date just happens to be the Julian day 2000000 (have I got the 
right number of zeros?).  It does not have anything with acceptance of any
calendar by anyone.  Just a convenient demarcation point.
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