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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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In-Reply-To: Riccardo Torrini's message of Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:12:38 +0200
Organization: just say no
Subject: Re: Unix epoch changed?
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> I'm trying to figure how a file can have a date _before_ unix epoch.

It's a signed value.

It runs from -2^31 (13 Dec 1901) to 2^31-1 (19 Jan 2038) with 0
(1 Jan 1970) in the middle.

-- Richard