Johnny Le wrote:
> Wonder why they chose 1/1/1601 as the starting point.

because it's "the beginning of the last 400-year cycle by which leap-years are 
calculated in the Gregorian calendar, which was followed by a new 400-year 
cycle 
beginning with 2001".

http://www.decimaltime.hynes.net/computers.html#windows

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