From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: khm@sciops.net (Kurt H Maier)
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 15:47:28 -0800
Subject: [TUHS] OT: Grace Hopper, Unix epoch, ARPAnet converted to TCP/IP
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1801011014400.99776@aneurin.horsfall.org>
References: <20171231231022.CDC7218C09C@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
 <alpine.BSF.2.21.1801011014400.99776@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Message-ID: <20171231234728.GA6542@wopr>


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