Re: Weird IIgs Rom 01 bug

[Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com>]

In article <7Fudd.185329$as2.2670@bignews3.bellsouth.net>,
 "Jayson Smith" 
 <nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net> wrote:

> Hi again,
> That's pretty much what I finally figured out.  But just one question.
> 1904?  Why 1904?  If they'd gone with the Unix epoch of 1970, we'd at least
> be good until somewhere around 2106 or so.

Actually, the Unix clock dies in 2036. There was quite a bit of 
discussion about this "impending" problem in the early 1990s.

My recollection about why they used 1904 matches that of another poster. 
It was so they didn't have to worry about the 100-but-not-400 exception.

> Also, it would appear that we, just like Unix, are only dealing with the
> positive side of the integer.

No. At a unit of one second, a 32-bit unsigned integer counts off 
not-quite 136.1 years.

G

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