> I'm curious as to the datum chosen - why not Jan 1, 1970 like C (at
least
> the Borland implementation)? That will last until the 22nd century -
I'll
> be dead :(
As other people have mentioned, the 1904 date comes from the Macintosh,
which also used that as the beginning of its seconds-count epoch. The
advantage of this date is that all years that can be represented by it
follow a simple pattern for computing leap years. 1900 wasn't a leap
year, but 2000 was, and the 32-bit value runs out before 2100 which is
not a leap year. It makes the whole "seconds to date" calculation a
little easier.
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