From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Dates set to Dec 31 1969 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:55:54 +0200 Message-ID: <87bnq0gaf9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140927130912.GK4704@n0nb.us> <87k34pgmsq.fsf@gnu.org> <20140927175611.GM4704@n0nb.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55140) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XXxA5-0004ZM-Sb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2014 14:56:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XXx9z-0005TS-TJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2014 14:56:05 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:39116) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XXx9z-0005SV-LS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2014 14:55:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140927175611.GM4704@n0nb.us> (Nate Bargmann's message of "Sat, 27 Sep 2014 12:56:11 -0500") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Nate Bargmann Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Nate Bargmann skribis: > * On 2014 27 Sep 09:35 -0500, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> It should be noted that it=E2=80=99s actually Jan. 1st 1970 UTC. :-) > > D'oh! Indeed. As I am six hours behind (America/Chicago) the system > rightly interprets the beginning of the epoch UTC as the prior day > here. All these years and that never dawned on me. Look, people in the Americas had computers in Dec. 1969 while the rest of the world had to wait until Jan. 1st, 1970! :-) Ludo=E2=80=99.c