In article <200001060057.LAA21979@balrog.supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>,
	Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org> writes:
>> Unix system time starts in 1970 and not in 1969.
> 
> Is this entirely true - ie is the time local or UTC?

It's about Y2k time windowing. With my patch 69 gets 2069 instead of 1969
which isn't a valid Unix time except for a few hours.

You can still address those few hours if you use "1969" explicitly.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                            http://www.sighardstrasse.de/~tron/