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Date:      Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:25:23 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpslice tcpslice.c 
Message-ID:  <3186.916388723@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:30:53 %2B1030." <19990115173053.N55525@freebie.lemis.com> 

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In message <19990115173053.N55525@freebie.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes:

>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,

Like the fact that it can be determined for certain that there existed
no unix systems prior to 1969 ?

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!

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