Re: time on UNIX and DOS

[Dirk <hickory@enteract.com>]

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UNIX time:

UNIX systems store time as the number of seconds since the UNIX Epoch.
32-bit systems can only store a maximum of 2^31 non-negative seconds
(2,147,483,648 seconds or about 68 years). Which means that 32-bit UNIX
systems won't be able to process time beyond 19 Jan 2038 at 3:14:07 AM UTC.

Don't know too much about DOS.


----- Original Message -----
From: alex galloway <alex@rhizome.org>
To: <hacktivism@tao.ca>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 4:20 AM
Subject: time on UNIX and DOS


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> ok you hackerz.. a question about time...
>
> 1) does anyone know about the absolute time convention used on UNIX. i
> think it's called the "epic" or the "epoch" or something like that. and it
> is somewhere around january 1970. i'm looking for books, URLs or just
> generally useful info about what this is, when it was decided, what it
> means, etc.
>
> 2) same question for dos/windoze. there's a similar thing going on,
> although the start date is different..
>
> ideas? reply to me off list.
>
> best,
>
> -ag
>
> ps anyone organizing a Floodnet of www.wto.org? www.etoys.com?
>
> Alex Galloway
> Editor & Technical Director
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