[LEAPSECS] RIP dmr, -893400000 to 1318100000

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20111013224112.GT18459 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:

>On Thu 2011-10-13T22:32:14 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:



>So while interpreting the memories of old guys it matters

>when the unix system decided to go to 32 bit count of seconds,

>because it could not reasonably have been before 1974.


I asked specifically because I suspected it was a slip of memory
and he insisted it was UTC.

I just checked and the 6th ed manual pages from '73 say GMT:

http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/man/man2/time.2

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