From: khm@sciops.net (Kurt H Maier)
Subject: [TUHS] OT: Grace Hopper, Unix epoch, ARPAnet converted to TCP/IP
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 15:47:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171231234728.GA6542@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1801011014400.99776@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 10:22:02AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
> > > the ARPAnet got converted from NCP to TCP/IP in 1983; ... have a more
> > > precise date?
> >
> > No, it was Jan 1.
>
> aneurin% date
> Mon Jan 1 10:14:58 EST 2018
>
> What timezone did you say you were in again? This is the problem when
> expressing historical events...
I am confident ARPANET did not pin time to AEDT. Even if you go by
UTC you've still got about fifteen minutes to wait for 1 JAN 2018.
khm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-31 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-31 23:10 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-31 23:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-31 23:47 ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2018-01-01 0:15 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-01 0:59 ` Kurt H Maier
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2018-01-01 12:59 Noel Chiappa
2018-01-02 0:57 ` Ron Natalie
2018-01-02 16:19 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-31 22:51 Dave Horsfall
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