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From: dave@wsccs.UUCP (Dave E Martin  "VAX Headroom")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Printing file age from DCL
Message-ID: <317@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 88 16:46:08 GMT
References: <8802152352.AA08946@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <231@wsccs.UUCP> <4174@megaron.arizona.edu>
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In article <4174@megaron.arizona.edu>, tsf@arizona.edu (Ted Frohling @ CCIT-Telcommunications, University of Arizona) writes:
> 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.

I remember reading somewhere that it was the calendar.
However, in looking in _VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures_ (ver 3 edition)
ch 11.1.2 page 215:

"The system time is defined by a quadword value measuring the number of
100-nanosecond intervals since 00:00 hours, November 17, 1858 (the time
base for the Smithsonian Institution astronomical calendar)."

Which, of course, is probably based on the above mentioned julian day.

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