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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. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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