Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:53:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> Cc: imp@village.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpslice tcpslice.c Message-ID: <19990115175308.P55525@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901150718.CAA19253@pcnet1.pcnet.com>; from Daniel Eischen on Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 02:18:55AM -0500 References: <199901150718.CAA19253@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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On Friday, 15 January 1999 at 2:18:55 -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: >> If you look at http://www.eunet.pt/ano2000/sun/sup_sun5.htm, you'll >> see that Sun uses a pivot date of 68 (i.e. two-digit years range >> between 1969 and 2068). I'm assuming that they have some reason to >> choose this particular number, and that others will do the same. > > Because UNIX time is seconds since Jan 1, 1970 ??? Then it would be 69/70, not 68/69. I haven't seen any explanation of this choice, but I'd expect that it covers more than UNIX. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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