From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 6 07:18:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25974 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 07:18:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pchb1f.gallaudet.edu (pchb1f.gallaudet.edu [134.231.8.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA25936 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 07:18:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from flatline@pchb1f.gallaudet.edu) Received: from localhost (flatline@localhost) by pchb1f.gallaudet.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA03721; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:06:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from flatline@pchb1f.gallaudet.edu) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:06:03 -0500 (EST) From: Uncle Flatline To: "Brian J. McGovern" cc: robl@phoebe.accinet.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Year 2000 compliance statement? In-Reply-To: <199802061335.IAA17390@spoon.beta.com> Message-ID: Organization: The Sprawl MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > To be honest, I can't remember an OS (and i'm sure someone is about to > correct me) that WASNT Year 2K compliant. Just curious: How did MS-DOS store it's date? Personally, I always liked the DECsystem-10's date scheme -- Day 0 was something like November 17, 1858, which was supposedly chosen because several planets were in alignment that day, and there were a set of photographic plates taken that day. I think they called it Smithsonian Astronomical Date Time. That and a 36-bit word size made for some interesting moments. 7-bit ASCII: 5 bytes to a word and "a little bit left over" ;-) We now return to your regularly scheduled discussion, already in progress. -- Kevin Cole | E-mail: flatline@pchb1f.gallaudet.edu Gallaudet Research Institute | WWW: http://pchb1f.gallaudet.edu/ Hall Memorial Bldg S-419 | Voice: (202) 651-5135 Washington, D.C. 20002-3695 | FAX: (202) 651-5746