On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:41:35PM -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>
> But, that number *is* the date and time.
> IIRC, It is the number of seconds since the beginning of Linux-era. :-)
>
Minor correction: it's the number of seconds since the beginning of
the Unix-era [*] , sort of. It's 00:00:00 1 Jan. 1970 Coordinated Universal Time,
this is also called the Epoch. POSIX (the big Unix standard) requires that
leap seconds are ignored, but some systems count them anyway.
* Linux is Unix-like but not a real Unix.
Unix is the name of a family of operating systems.
There are a few requirements to be allowed to call an operating system
Unix. One of these requirements is confirmation to the POSIX standard,
another one is paying a lot of money.
The latter requirement has kept Linux from being a real Unix, but for
all practical purposes Linux is a Unix.
The same aplies to the {free,net,open}BSD, with the difference that Linux
was written from scratch while *BSD derive from some of the oldest Unix
sources (the Berkeley sources), although not a single byte of those
sources remains in current versions.
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