Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:52:18 -0800 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> 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: <199901150852.AAA28411@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> "Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpslice tcpslice.c" (Jan 15, 5:53pm)
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On Jan 15, 5:53pm, Greg Lehey wrote: } Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpslice tcpslice.c } 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. I think they might have picked 68/69 because Unix time 0 is be late in the day local time on December 31, 1969 for folks in timezones west of the Prime Meridian. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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