> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:41:41 -0500 (EST)
> From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@uranium.club.cc.cmu.edu>
> To: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
> cc: adam.r.pigg@bnfl.com, port-vax@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: VAX/VMS Time
> 
> it starts from the time the US Naval Observatory began keeping the
> official time, not the shithsonian... but essentially, yeah. 
> 
> isildur
> 
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> > Yes, it's counted in 100ns increments since the opening of the
> > Smithsonian Institute (if memory serves me right).

Amazing what folklore gets propagated here.  It's a Modified Julian Date.

Try Google to learn more about it.  Or just look at
< http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/ModifiedJulianDate.html >

    carl
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    carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
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