Re: [Biofuel] Why do my messages show the date 1969-12-31?
Andrew Cunningham wrote: I know it must have been one heck of a new years party but I wasn't alive yet. Andy Hi Andy, I saw a normal date on this message. Where are you seeing that? -- Martin K http://wwia.org/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Why do my messages show the date 1969-12-31?
I see that date attached to mail to me every once in a while. Martin K wrote: Andrew Cunningham wrote: I know it must have been one heck of a new years party but I wasn't alive yet. Andy Hi Andy, I saw a normal date on this message. Where are you seeing that? -- ~~ Bob Allen, born just fine the first time http://ozarker.org ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Why do my messages show the date 1969-12-31?
When life began. No, really there is a variable in all machines that has the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. So if the data is '1969-12-31', your clock is set to zero. It usually gets set to zero in an email address if the person sending the message has an outdated email client, or an intermediary mail server has problems. Many times the archive [link below] cannot decipher the date from someone's email, but I wrote it to set the date to the current day instead of setting it to 1969, resulting in it being less wrong. -- Martin K http://wwia.org/sgroup/biofuel/ bob allen wrote: is that date some sort of default value if a computer clock screws up? I see that date attached to mail to me every once in a while. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Why do my messages show the date 1969-12-31?
That is the Unix date of 'epoch' When life began. No, really there is a variable in all machines that has the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. So if the data is '1969-12-31', your clock is set to zero. It usually gets set to zero in an email address if the person sending the message has an outdated email client, or an intermediary mail server has problems. Yup. And that brings us to the 2038 bug. On January 19, 2038 the 32-bit integer that stores the number of seconds* since the Unix epoch began rolls over. Then bad things happen... ...unless we move everything to 64-bit unix time. The 64-bit time rollover is presumed not to be a problem because the sun will run out of hydrogen and turn into a white dwarf star first. jh *(2,147,483,647 in case you were wondering) ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Why do my messages show the date 1969-12-31?
Oh No! That is the first I heard of the Y2.038K bug! We best all prepare for the end! Andy On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:02:34 -0500, John Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin K wrote: That is the Unix date of 'epoch' When life began. No, really there is a variable in all machines that has the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. So if the data is '1969-12-31', your clock is set to zero. It usually gets set to zero in an email address if the person sending the message has an outdated email client, or an intermediary mail server has problems. Yup. And that brings us to the 2038 bug. On January 19, 2038 the 32-bit integer that stores the number of seconds* since the Unix epoch began rolls over. Then bad things happen... ...unless we move everything to 64-bit unix time. The 64-bit time rollover is presumed not to be a problem because the sun will run out of hydrogen and turn into a white dwarf star first. jh *(2,147,483,647 in case you were wondering) ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Why do my messages show the date 1969-12-31?
Martin, Check out ID#42947 or search in [biofuel] for acusorb and sort by ID. Is there a gmail glitch to the code? Andy On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:25:08 -0500, Martin K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is the Unix date of 'epoch' When life began. No, really there is a variable in all machines that has the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. So if the data is '1969-12-31', your clock is set to zero. It usually gets set to zero in an email address if the person sending the message has an outdated email client, or an intermediary mail server has problems. Many times the archive [link below] cannot decipher the date from someone's email, but I wrote it to set the date to the current day instead of setting it to 1969, resulting in it being less wrong. -- Martin K http://wwia.org/sgroup/biofuel/ bob allen wrote: is that date some sort of default value if a computer clock screws up? I see that date attached to mail to me every once in a while. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
