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Date:      Wed, 9 Apr 2003 11:25:00 +0100 (BST)
From:      Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To:        Riccardo Torrini <riccardo@torrini.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unix epoch changed?
Message-ID:  <200304091025.LAA13913@sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Riccardo Torrini's message of Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:12:38 %2B0200

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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



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