Re: The 2001-09-09 bug...

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From: Dr John Stockton
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 22:45

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JRS:  In article <GLtNOlBCvSn7EwtA@merlyn.demon.co.uk>, seen in
news:uk.tech.y2k, Dr John Stockton <spam@merlyn.demon.co.uk> wrote at
Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:08:18 :-
>JRS:  reproduced for info, note newsgroups line & FU :
>
>In news:comp.software.year-2000, Falissard <th.falissard@etic.fr> wrote
>at Sun, 9 Sep 2001 18:03:57 :-
>
>>The Un*x time function time_t counts seconds elapsed from 1/1/1970
>>(the Base Date for UN*X).
>>
>>On 2001-09-09 at 01:46:40 GMT ...
>>  ... exactly 1 billion seconds
>>have elapsed since the base date.

Seen on slashdot at <URL: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/10/22
31247&mode=nested> (which cited my critdate, and put the www.merlyn
access rate dangerously high), these S1G reports :

OpenLDAP hit - fault in slurpd daemon.
CVS repositories hit in cvsup utility, V16.1d fixes.
Jive <2.0 hit.
Possible electronic lock hit.
 
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 Web <URL: http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> - w. FAQish topics, links, acronyms
 Dates - miscdate.htm  Year 2000 - date2000.htm  Critical Dates - critdate.htm
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From: Dr John Stockton <spam@merlyn.demon.co.uk>
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