Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 22:03:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Carl Lowenstein <cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu>
Message-Id: <199909080503.WAA08055@mpl.ucsd.edu>
To: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au
Subject: Re: Diff between 11/20 and 11/45?
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> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:13:30 +1000 (EST)
> From: Dave Horsfall <dave@fgh.geac.com.au>
> To: PDP Unix Preservation Society <pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: Diff between 11/20 and 11/45?
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> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Warren Toomey wrote:
> 
> > I've got a few working. cat works. ls and date run, but sort of give
> > strange outputs.
> 
> What sort of strange output?  My guess is that kernel-wise, date-handling
> would have changed.

It occurs to me that really early Unix used a time word in PDP-11 ticks,
not seconds.  So it ran out of time a lot sooner than 2038, like maybe
only a year after it started, at 60 ticks per second, 31.5 Megaseconds per
year.  This information was gleaned from a Mt.Xinu calendar from a few
years ago.

    carl