Re: Mac Epoch: Was Re: Grand Unified Theory of Date/Time modules

[Chris Nandor]

At 19:09 -0400 2001.05.05, Rich Bowen wrote:
>On Sat, 5 May 2001 16:46:46 -0400, Chris Nandor said:
>
>> Hi all.  Just as an FYI, my only purpose on this list is to keep reminding
>>  people that not all machines calculate dates in the same way.  For example,
>>  the epoch on Mac OS begins at Jan 1, 1904 LOCAL TIME instead of Jan 1, 1970
>>  GMT.
>
>When does it end?  I assume it is not the same length as the Unix epoch, or it
>would already be over.

The 32-bit epoch is unsigned instead of signed, and ends in 2040 instead of
2038.

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