time change

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I don't recall who, but at least one of them (Thompson, Ritchie or 
Kernighan) had a background in astronomy. I don't think these guys were 
dealing with phone systems. 

It is amazing that Unix has had it right since the beginning of time 
(1/1/1970), but that other, newer systems continue to screw it up. 


On 20 Sep 2002 at 20:53, John Chambers wrote:
> It's interesting that the guys at Bell Labs understood this  back  in
> the early 70's, and decreed that Unix's internal time would always be
> GMT everywhere.  But they had probably seen enough grief  within  the
> phone system from the use of local time.

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