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Re: Posix Time Functions [message #17866 is a reply to message #17772]

Fri, 12 November 1999 00:00

Ben Tupper
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Registered: August 1999

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In article <80ht4l$4kl@b0rv11.fnal.gov>, gcooper@b0rv11.fnal.gov says...
>
> In article <942358684.298839@clam-55>,
> Mark Hadfield <m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz> wrote:
>> Ben Tupper <Ben_member@newsguy.com> wrote in message
>> news:80f3b3$2tm1@edrn.newsguy.com...
>>> ... I just happened to need something like this recently
>>> when working with instrument data. Each measurement was stamped with
>> Julian
>>> seconds elapsed since October 15, 1582.
>>
>> How do people come up with these strange time origins!
>
> Isn't this when the Gregorian calendar (i.e., the current one)
> was adopted?
>

It is according to the the IDL documentation. I don't know first hand of
course... but maybe David has fond memories of the day when the Pope patched up
the calendar.

Ben

P.S. Just kidding, David! You're could possibly be that old!

Ben Tupper
PemaquidRiver@tidewater.net

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