Administrivia - Billion Second Day

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Tue Sep 11 22:43:58 2001

Lance Costanzo skrev:

>While IBM, HP, Dec, Intel, Microsoft, and a cast of thousands have
>been duking it out for the past 31-3/4 years, UNIX time() (ref: man 3 time)
>has been steadily plodding along and has quietly ticked past 1 billion
>seconds within the last day or so.

So, what other epochs are there for us to celebrate?
The Amiga's timekeeping routine starts AFAIK at 1978 (which is a lot of time
before the Amiga was actually made. Could it be intended to coincide with the
invention of the PET or another C= micro?).

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