It's not just Macintosh, Microsoft does it too, because their dates start at December 30, 1899, i.e. not December 31st as would seem more consistent, at it falls back to programmers being lazy, and sticking to the simpler Julian calendar. Where in real life we're using the Gregorian calendar flavor where there was a February 29 in 2000 but not in 1900 (and will not be in 2100).
So by starting in 1904 instead of 1900 you neatly sidestep this issue. /Henry "John Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:111680@palm-dev-forum... .. ... > And someone else wrote: > > Why did Palm base their epoch on the 1904 date anyway? > > Think Macintosh. > > John > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
