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by Gordonjcp
1296 days ago
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Unix timestamps can represent dates *before* 1970, by using negative numbers. Dennis Ritchie has said that he picked signed 32-bit values with an epoch of 1/1/1970 because that would comfortably represent dates exceeding his life - before he was born until after his (expected) death. |
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