[LEAPSECS] Pre-1972 UTC

[Tony Finch]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> Daniel R. Tobias writes:

> >

> >Is this stuff all just academic, or does anybody actually have any

> >pre-1972 timestamps (in documents, databases, etc.) for which precise

> >sub-second interpretation is necessary?

>

> I guess only Dennis, Ken or Brian could be affected, and I doubt they

> bothered to set their clocks even to second precision.

>

> 	http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/1stEdman.html


Which says that Unix time settled on its current rate and epoch in 1973,
so there won't be timestamps from before then.

I'd expect astronomers to have some.

Tony.
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