[geeks] You know you're an OpenVMS fanatic...

[Eric Dittman]

> >> > You know what happened on November 17, 1858.
> >> What happened?
> >Beginning of time.  VMS uses 1858-11-17T00:00:00Z as its epoch, which is, I
> >think, the day that the US Naval Observatory was opened.
> It's something more bizarre than that, and something only astronomers
> know about. I don't remember the exact details, but it's days since some
> ancient astronomical event, modulo a billion or something.

Here's the link to the explanation in the OpenVMS FAQ:

http://www.openvms.compaq.com/wizard/faq/vmsfaq_003.html#time1
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