>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Senior <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>> "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? Russell> Second 0 was midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC. Russell> I'm not sure of all the historical reasons, presumably a Russell> reasonable if arbitrary choice for people working on operating Russell> systems and programming languages in the 1970s. Here's the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
