From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 6 07:26:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA28121 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 07:26:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA28087 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 07:26:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA14169; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 09:24:10 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199802061524.JAA14169@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Year 2000 compliance statement? To: flatline@pchb1f.gallaudet.edu (Uncle Flatline) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 09:24:10 -0600 (CST) Cc: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com, robl@phoebe.accinet.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Uncle Flatline at "Feb 6, 98 10:06:03 am" X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" In a previous message, Uncle Flatline said: > On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > > > To be honest, I can't remember an OS (and i'm sure someone is about to > > correct me) that WASNT Year 2K compliant. > > Just curious: How did MS-DOS store it's date? Seems to me it was seconds since some time in 1980, so it has about 10 years on Unix. > Personally, I always liked the DECsystem-10's date scheme -- Day 0 was > something like November 17, 1858, which was supposedly chosen because several > planets were in alignment that day, and there were a set of photographic > plates taken that day. I think they called it Smithsonian Astronomical Date > Time. That and a 36-bit word size made for some interesting moments. 7-bit > ASCII: 5 bytes to a word and "a little bit left over" ;-) New age clock? :-) -- "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." --A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)