Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 09:24:10 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: flatline@pchb1f.gallaudet.edu (Uncle Flatline) Cc: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com, robl@phoebe.accinet.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Year 2000 compliance statement? Message-ID: <199802061524.JAA14169@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980206100104.3710A-100000@pchb1f.gallaudet.edu> from Uncle Flatline at "Feb 6, 98 10:06:03 am"
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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.)
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