I believe they changed it and that is the problem "Dwight Tovey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:111618@palm-dev-forum... > > 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 > > -- > Dwight Tovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >
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