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From: robert@timetraveller.org (Robert Brockway)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 08:08:32 +1000 (AEST)
Subject: [TUHS] 2018: eighteen months to the Unix 50th anniversary
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> No way the big JC could've been born in the middle of winter in that part of 
> the world; try about 4BC (Halley's comet) around Spring in March or so.

Quite right.  I was there in winter and got snowed in for 3 days at a 
kibbutz near Jerusalem.

I'd also like to endorse the Holocene Calendar at this point since it 
results in all events since the development of agriculture having a 
positive date.  Much easier for comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar

OnUNIX: Development of UNIX started in 11969HE.  See, perfectly sensible.

Rob