>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> writes:
John> On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:53:36 -0700 Russell Senior John> <[email protected]> dijo: >> The balloons are still drifting down here. It apparently happened >> about 3 hours ago. Happy sesqui-billion seconds, if that's the right >> way to say it! John> About thirty-two years ago? Linux started? Ab urbe condita? Second 0 was midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC. I'm not sure of all the historical reasons, presumably a reasonable if arbitrary choice for people working on operating systems and programming languages in the 1970s. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
