From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 14 23:24:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA03882 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 23:24:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA03870; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 23:24:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA08918; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:53:09 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id RAA61963; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:53:08 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:53:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Daniel Eischen Cc: imp@village.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpslice tcpslice.c Message-ID: <19990115175308.P55525@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199901150718.CAA19253@pcnet1.pcnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901150718.CAA19253@pcnet1.pcnet.com>; from Daniel Eischen on Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 02:18:55AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Friday, 15 January 1999 at 2:18:55 -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: >> If you look at http://www.eunet.pt/ano2000/sun/sup_sun5.htm, you'll >> see that Sun uses a pivot date of 68 (i.e. two-digit years range >> between 1969 and 2068). I'm assuming that they have some reason to >> choose this particular number, and that others will do the same. > > Because UNIX time is seconds since Jan 1, 1970 ??? Then it would be 69/70, not 68/69. I haven't seen any explanation of this choice, but I'd expect that it covers more than UNIX. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message