On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:11:46PM -0500 it came to pass that Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 6:46 PM +0100 3/3/04, Jos Visser wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:37:09AM -0500 it came to pass that Dan 
> >Sugalski wrote:
> >>
> >> FWIW, if we start getting into the "What should our base time for the
> >> epoch be" arguments, I'll warn you that the answer if I have to make
> >> one is probably Nov 17, 1858 at midnight, give or take a bad memory,
> >> and our time value'll be a 64-bit integer. So think carefully before
> >> you go there. :)
> >
> >Nahhh.... Epoch should be 1-1-1970 at 12:00am midnight,
> 
> Bzzzt! Wrong! :-P
> 
> If we go non-platform-private, we're going to use the Smithsonian base date.

And catch countless people unawares? :-)

++Jos.es

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