5 Jan
2011
5 Jan
'11
2:34 p.m.
> For REAL events to monitor, consider
> the winter solstice in 2012
> the Unix epoch (for those still alive almost 30 years from now)
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Rich Alderson wrote:
The one I'd like to be alive for is the
TENEX/TOPS-20/ITS epoch:
7-Aug-2576 23:59:59
I hadn't even considered the possibility of anybody here being alive for
another half a millenium!
In the meantime, howzbout 2108 for MS-DOS FAT? (16 bit packed bitfield
date providing an offset of 128 years from 1980?)
As for the next Winter Solstice, I've got 7 other
festivals to watch for
before then. (2010 was cool, with full moons on the Autumnal Equinox and
the Winter Solstice, and a new on their quartering.)
Are astronomical coincidences really as important as programming
short-sightedness of the 1960s? THAT is what we celebrated at the end of
1999; nothing to do with any sort of "millenium", not disunirregardless of
how one defines it.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com