On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 11:07, Henk Jonas wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> could someone explain me why all three dates in my pdb headers are
> something around 0x3e3bcffb ? The docs say it shall be "the number of
> seconds since 12:00 A.M. on January 1, 1904." But when I approximate 100
> years then I get 36524 days * 24 h/day * 60 minutes/hour * 60
> seconds/minute which is 3155673600 or in hexadecimal 0xbc17c200.
> Anybody can help me out?
>
I might make a guess that the dates were generated this morning at about
5:47:39 (possibly off because of locale differences) by a system that is
basing it's epoch as being midnight, 1/1/1970 (such as most (all?) PC
systems). The 0x3e3bcffb timestamp is about 33.1 years (and change),
which makes it about right for such a system. No idea as to how that
would end up in pdb headers created on a Palm system.
Why did Palm base their epoch on the 1904 date anyway? It means the
clock will overrun and we'll have another "Y2K" panic in "only" 36 more
years! :-)
/dwight
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Dwight Tovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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