Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!peregrine!dmi
From: dmi@peregrine.peregrine.com (Dean Inada)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Epoch's for time_t
Message-ID: <23037@peregrine.peregrine.com>
Date: 16 Nov 88 22:25:40 GMT
References: <27432@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <2199@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: dmi@peregrine.UUCP (Dean Inada)
Organization: Peregrine Systems, Inc., Irvine, CA
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In article <2199@cuuxb.ATT.COM> dlm@cuuxb.UUCP (Dennis L. Mumaugh) writes:
 >
 >In article <27432@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> lum@bat.cis.ohio-state.edu 
 >(Lum Johnson) writes:
 >    The  epoch  you're  referring  to  is   probably   0000   GMT
 >    17-Nov-1858,  the same as for pdp-10 monitors with which I am
 >    familiar.  The date was chosen by someone at The  Smithsonian
 >
 >Actually  the  epoch  is  the   founding   of   the   Smithsonian
 >
 >I claim there is one "logical" epoch and  that  is  the  one  the
 >Julian  date  is  based  upon.  It is located back in the time of

12:00 GMT 16-Nov-1858 is Julian day 2400000.
A very millennial epoch for the founding of the Smithsonian, n'est-ce pas?