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It looks like maybe Apollo/Domain systems use an epoch of 1929-10-14 instead of 1970-01-01. Maybe that's the birthday of one of the early developers (or their
by KMag 4y ago
It looks like maybe Apollo/Domain systems use an epoch of 1929-10-14 instead of 1970-01-01. Maybe that's the birthday of one of the early developers (or their spouse).
There's nothing particularly magical about the Unix epoch.
- toast0 4y ago> There's nothing particularly magical about the Unix epoch. It's the beginning of time, everything before is Omphalos; even the Omphalos conjecture itself; Unix is meta like that.
- owl57 4y ago> There's nothing particularly magical about the Unix epoch. When you have to debug the same event reported in five different timezones, and then see some ugly 13-digit numbers and immediately know that's milliseconds since a certain globally-coherent moment… That moment definitely starts to feel magic.
- cf100clunk 4y ago> 1929-10-14 Hmmm, about 2 weeks before the Wall Street Crash of 1929, so I doubt it refers specifically to that.