"Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "The FILETIME structure is a 64-bit value representing the > > number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601. " > > It's important, to be able to keep time in nanoseconds on a computer... and > as > we all know, 1601 is an important date ;-) >
Now why they didn't keep with the VMS standard, which also had a 64-bit time structure (I forget the resolution), with time 0 sometime in 1858, I'll never know. (the 1858 date was chosen because that is, in fact, astronomical time 0, so VMS was indeed adhering to a pre-existing standard) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
