On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Pete Theisen <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Hill wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Steve Ellenoff <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> I bought some new hard drives recently, and noticed the manufactured >>> date for 2 of them happened to be my birthday this past year. Call me >>> a geek, but I thought that was really cool! The other 2 drives I >>> bought were off by 2 days, and I was actually bummed!! Time to get a life, >>> eh? >> >> Using Unix time, I was born at approx 123456789 (Thu, 29 Nov 1973 21:33:09 >> GMT) > > Hi Paul! > > Did Unix even have time at 4:50 AM Eastern US, January 27, 1945?
-720731400 Luckily Unix timestamps are signed integers :-) ...which is why we face another Y2K type problem in 2038. -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
