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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2000 07:00:44 -0500 (EST)
From:      Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I will never trust NBC news again!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001130659250.51056-100000@hydrant.intranova.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000109150716.D51101@bitbox.follo.net>

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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.
> 



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