From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: khm@sciops.net (Kurt H Maier) Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:59:07 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] OT: Grace Hopper, Unix epoch, ARPAnet converted to TCP/IP In-Reply-To: References: <20171231231022.CDC7218C09C@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20171231234728.GA6542@wopr> Message-ID: <20180101005907.GB6542@wopr> On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 11:15:19AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > My "on this day" policy is to use the local time if it can be narrowed to > a particular zone where the event happened (and if it makes sense); if it > was universal e.g. moon landings then I'll use UTC; otherwise I'll use the > commonly-observed date e.g. the start/end of the world wars. I support your policy, but I'd say the ARPA in ARPANET makes it at least feasible to stick with Zulu time for related milestones. > I'm open to suggestions (including FOAD, in which case I'll simply find > something better to do). Personally, I've enjoyed your posts marking anniversaries of these events. > A lingering gripe that explains my latent anti-Americanism goes back to The older I get, the more convinced I am that the "two hard things in Computer Science" quote came from someone who never had to accurately report the ages of events predating epoch time. And I can say as a patriotic American, I did not truly understand the desperate plight of being a foreigner until I was in Cape Town during the Super Bowl. After that I limited international travel to extremely profitable endeavors; otherwise the ROI just isn't there. khm