Why bigger year is not chosen for start, for example- 1950, 1970...?
Funny you should mention 1970. There are several different date formats that the
PalmOS uses in various places. One of them does indeed start at 1/1/1970 (this
is a Unix thing, IIRC, unlike 1/1/1904 which was a Mac thing).
Yes, for birthdays it make sence..., and if I think about this the year 2031 is
not so soon as it seems:)
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Stanislav,
Yes, for birthdays it make sence...,
Although at the time, there would have been many more people still alive with
birthdays prior to that epoch date than there are now.
and if I think about this the year 2031 is not so soon as it seems:)
Unless you are dealing with expiration /
From: Ben Combee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 09:53 AM 10/18/2005, you wrote:
As for why that date exactly I think it's related to leap year
calculations. By avoiding 1900 they avoided some possibly
complicated leap year issues (only to run into them again in
Y2K, of course).
Actually, the leap
