From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 13 4: 3:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from intranova.net (blacklisted.intranova.net [209.3.31.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 616D415637 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 04:03:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oogali@intranova.net) Received: (qmail 7217 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2000 07:05:10 -0000 Received: from hydrant.intranova.net (user45427@209.201.95.10) by blacklisted.intranova.net with SMTP; 13 Jan 2000 07:05:10 -0000 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 07:00:44 -0500 (EST) From: Omachonu Ogali To: Eivind Eklund Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I will never trust NBC news again! In-Reply-To: <20000109150716.D51101@bitbox.follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org There are some institutions and organizations (such as banks and crime departments) that need to record dates that happened before 1970. Omachonu Ogali Intranova Networking Group On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 09:26:46PM -0500, Omachonu Ogali wrote: > > It can't be signed because you then break all dates before the Unix epoch > > (January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC) > > In 2038, I'm pretty sure I'd much rather break all dates before 1970 > than all dates after february. > > Eivind. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message