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Re: The "end" of universal time
- To: giba@gte.com (Glenn Iba)
- Subject: Re: The "end" of universal time
- From: bill@cambridge.apple.com (Bill St. Clair)
- Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 09:39:00 -0400
- Cc: info-mcl@digitool.com, giba@gte.com
- Sender: owner-info-mcl@digitool.com
At 4:03 PM 2/2/95, Glenn Iba wrote:
>I know this hardly qualifies as a major issue, but I'm curious
>as too why Universal Time in MCL stops after 884763176575 ??
>(I noticed this after playing around in response to the posting
> about the 3 billionth second of universal time, which I found
> amusing - thanks Rodney!)
I'm pretty sure that the reason for this is a limitation in
the Mac's time conversion functions which are used by MCL's
universal time implementation.