On 2021-01-23 18:05, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > Not specific to gnucash. Whenever you see an unexpected date of > 12/31/1969 be aware that the most likely reason is "no date/time > specified". That's because 12/31/1969 is time = 0 for computers.
For _some_ computers. The technical term for the date and time equivalent to 0 in a particular operating system or programming language is "the epoch," and there are many of them. Here are two lengthy but incomplete lists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(computing) -- Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com https://OakRoadSystems.com _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
