Dragaera

Internet time

Fri Jan 16 08:25:09 PST 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Hunter [mailto:matthew at infodancer.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:06 AM
> To: dragaera at dragaera.info
> Subject: Re: Internet time
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:57:06AM -0500, Jag 
> <agrajag at dragaera.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 06:31, Matthew Hunter wrote:
> > > When exactly is the dawn of Internet time, again?  
> > 00:00:00 Jan 1 1970 GMT
> > And email was created a mere 2-3 years later. (According to this..
> > http://www.coruscant.demon.co.uk/mike/sendmail/history.html)
> 
> That would be the dawn of UNIX time.  Not quite the same thing.
> 

UNIX always has been a little off.

On the first day of Christmas my server said to me:
 It's January 1970.

"The C Days of Christmas" -- Sync; Sync; Halt


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